Background Image Alternative Text: Stephen C. Ferguson II, Ph.D.
Background Image Alternative Text: Stephen C. Ferguson II, Ph.D.

"What is this thing called Hip-Hop?"

African American philosophy or philosophy of the black experience seeks to discover definitions, categories, and the material/existential conditions of blackness, but also to provide a rigorous and robust treatment of the same, where none exists. The intent in doing so is not only one of discovery, but also to put forth empirical as well normative claims useful in addressing hindrances to whatever qualifies as flourishing life.