Paul Christopher Taylor (born September 19, 1967) is an American philosopher, author, and was W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University until moving to UCLA in the summer of 2023.
Previously he taught philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University.
[2] Taylor has published three monographs, edited two collections of essays, and has written many articles in peer-reviewed journals.
[6] The term 'black aesthetics' refers to "the practice of using art, criticism, or analysis to explore the role that expressive objects and practices play in creating and maintaining black life-worlds" (p. 12).
Together with Linda Martín Alcoff and Luvell Anderson he edited the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race (2018).