David Miguel Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 6037218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Miguel Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7853-7452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In Defense of Introspective Affordances
Psychological and philosophical studies have extended J. J. Gibson’s notion of affordances. Affordances are possibilities for bodily action presented to us by the objects of our perception. Recent work has argued that we should extend the actions afforded by perception to mental action. I argue that we can extend the notion of affordance itself. What I call ‘Introspective Affordances’ are possibilities for mental action presented to us by introsp…
How quotation and referential intentions modulate the derogatory force of slur utterances
The need for new insights to understand the effects of quoting slurs in linguistic communication has been evident over the past several years. Slurs seem to be capable of offending even when embedded in quotations or mentioned. This ability of the derogatory force of slurs to project out of embeddings like quotations is an instance of what I will call the ‘projectible force’ of slurs. This force is taken to be a particularly serious problem for c…
Aspiration and Self-Realization
Work on the conceptual amelioration of race concepts is usually negative or critical: it uncovers social features that contribute to racial hierarchies. Much less focus has been placed on how ameliorative accounts contribute to positive change. Using an account of race developed by Steve Biko during South African apartheid, I will argue that we can extract a novel account of positive amelioration in which racial categories can have normative or a…
Social Ontologies of Race and their Development
The theme of this year's Spindel Conference was Social Ontologies of Race. This editorial introduction serves as both a general introduction to the topic of racial ontology and an introduction to this volume's contributions and their development of the debate
Introduction to Charles Mills's “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth
An introduction to the posthumously published essay by Charles Mills, “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto.”
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Social Ontologies of Race and their Development
The theme of this year's Spindel Conference was Social Ontologies of Race. This editorial introduction serves as both a general introduction to the topic of racial ontology and an introduction to this volume's contributions and their development of the debate
Introduction to Charles Mills's “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth
An introduction to the posthumously published essay by Charles Mills, “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto.”
Aspiration and Self-Realization
Work on the conceptual amelioration of race concepts is usually negative or critical: it uncovers social features that contribute to racial hierarchies. Much less focus has been placed on how ameliorative accounts contribute to positive change. Using an account of race developed by Steve Biko during South African apartheid, I will argue that we can extract a novel account of positive amelioration in which racial categories can have normative or a…
How quotation and referential intentions modulate the derogatory force of slur utterances
The need for new insights to understand the effects of quoting slurs in linguistic communication has been evident over the past several years. Slurs seem to be capable of offending even when embedded in quotations or mentioned. This ability of the derogatory force of slurs to project out of embeddings like quotations is an instance of what I will call the ‘projectible force’ of slurs. This force is taken to be a particularly serious problem for c…
In Defense of Introspective Affordances
Psychological and philosophical studies have extended J. J. Gibson’s notion of affordances. Affordances are possibilities for bodily action presented to us by the objects of our perception. Recent work has argued that we should extend the actions afforded by perception to mental action. I argue that we can extend the notion of affordance itself. What I call ‘Introspective Affordances’ are possibilities for mental action presented to us by introsp…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race (biology) (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affordance (1 works)