William M. Paris PhD

William Paris is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. He is one of the co-hosts of What’s Left of Philosophy? He received a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 2018, and has served as the Frank B. Weeks Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Wesleyan University. From 2018-2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University.

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He is also the author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press). In this manuscript, he brings together the work of Ernst Bloch, Rahel Jaeggi, and Rainer Forst as well as W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Delany, Frantz Fanon, and James Boggs to generate a novel critical theory of racial domination under capitalism as essentially the domination of time. His research focuses on History of African American philosophy, critical theory, 20th century continental philosophy, and political philosophy.  He has published on Frantz Fanon and gender, Sylvia Wynter's phenomenology of imagination, and C.L.R. James and Hannah Arendt on hope.