Brandon Hogan
Howard University
Department of Philosophy
Brandon.hogan@howard.edu
Employment History
Howard University, Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2019-present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2013- 2019
Education
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., 2013
Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, M.A., 2008
Harvard Law School, J.D., 2008
Howard University, B.A. Political Science, 2003
Areas of Specialization: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence: African American Philosophy, Ethics
Publications
1. “Status, Not Race,” (with Maureen Edobor) (forthcoming) UC Constitutional Quarterly.
2. “Hegelian Constitutivism,” Hegel Bulletin. Published online 2025:1-24.
3.“Reading Fanon on Hegel,” Philosophy Compass. Vol. 18 (8): (July 2023).
4. “Hegelian Restorative Justice,” Southern Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 61 (1): 82-111, (March 2023).
5. “What ‘Black Lives Matter’ Should Mean” in The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Brandon Hogan, et.al. (Oxford University Press, 2021): 15-34.
6. “Derrick Bell’s Dilemma” 20 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 1 (2019): 1-26.
7. “Death in Hip-Hop: An Existential Analysis” Words Beats and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, Vol. 7, no. 1, (2019): 15-33.
8. “A Hegelian Critique of Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity” Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 3, Issue 3 (2017): 350-365.
9. "Frantz Fanon’s Engagement with Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic" Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.11, no.8, (June 2018): 16-32.
10. “Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: Some Hegelian Considerations” in Creolizing Hegel, ed. Michael Monahan (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017): 225-242.
11. “The Misplaced Role of Phenomenology in Duncan Kennedy’s Theory of Legal Interpretation” Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, Vol. 10 (2015): 60-63.
12. “To Know Is To Be Able To Do” Praxis, Vol.3, No.1 (Spring 2011): 51-65.
13. “Deontology, Rationality and Agent-Centered Restrictions,” Florida Philosophical Review, Vol.10, Issue 1 (Summer 2010): 75-87.
Works in Progress
“A Context-Sensitive Theory of Criminal Justice”
“A Hegelian Argument for Reparations”(under review)
Book Reviews
“Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation, by Molly Farneth” Political Theory, First Published January 20, 2018.
Book Projects
The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, ed., Brandon Hogan, Michael Cholbi, Alex Madva, and Benjamin Yost (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Other Publications
“Why Study Dead White Men?” Blog of the APA (May 9, 2022).
“Why Study Dead White Men?” Howard Magazine (Fall 2021).
“There’s No Classics ‘Catastrophe’ at Howard University,” with Jacoby Carter, New York Times (May 2, 2021).
“What it’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member,” Blog of the APA (February 3, 2020).
“Oaths are Dangerous and Necessary,” The Imminent Frame (September 24, 2019).
“Your Boycott May Fail, But You Should Do It Anyway,” The Huffington Post (April 25, 2018).
Selected Presentations
1. “Hegelian Constitutivism”
American Philosophical Association, 2019 Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC, April 17-20, 2019.
Tufts University, October 2022
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, February 2023
2. “Hegelian Recognition and the Constitution of Agency,” Hegelian Constitutivism and Metaethics, Baylor University, April 9-11, 2026
3. “A Hegelian Argument for Reparations,” Politics and Post-Kantian Thought, Reed College, March 13-14, 2026
4. “Racial Capitalism and Reparations,” accepted at 2026 London PPE Conference, July 2026.
Grants and Awards
ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship, 2026-2027
Courses Taught
Principles of Reasoning
Epistemology
Personhood and Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Hip-Hop and Philosophy
Later Wittgenstein
Philosophy of Mind
Meaning and Truth
Logic for Lawyers
Pragmatism
Democracy
Critical Race Theory
Black Reparations
Manuscript Reviewer
Political Theory
Hypatia
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Hegel Bulletin
Southern Journal of Philosophy
Professional Service
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting Program Committee
University Service
Director, Howard BA/JD Program, 2020-present
Philosophy Undergraduate Studies Advisor, 2014-present
References
Robert Brandom (rbrandom@pitt.edu) Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Engstrom (engstrom@pitt.edu) Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Tommie Shelby (tshelby@fas.harvard.edu) Professor of African and African American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University.
Terry Pinkard (Terry.Pinkard@georgetown.edu) University Professor, Georgetown University.