My name is Corey Beckford, and I am currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. I received my BA in Philosophy from Lake Forest College in 2019, and my MA from Brandeis University in 2021.
I specialize in Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic and moral philosophies, Aesthetics and Nature, and African American Philosophy. Below is a sample of my publications and conferences.
Research & Conferences
Publications
Corey A. Beckford, Faked nature? A Kantian Proto-Environmental Aesthetics, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 2025;, ayae057, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayae057
Zhu R., & Beckford C. (2017). “Reply to Steven Burik.” Philosophy East and West 68 (1):271-276.
Conferences
“Kant, Race, and Aesthetics: A Quest for a Black Radical Critique of Kant’s Aesthetics and Raciology” for the North American Kant Society; Topic: Rethinking Kant’s Philosophy in Light of His Raciology, APA Central Division Conference 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Kant, Alain Locke, and Cosmopolitanism” — 45th-Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Participant Conference, Summer 2023
“What is the worth of a negro?: A possible Kantian Answer” – APA Eastern Division Conference 2022, Baltimore, Invited Symposium: Racism and the History of Philosophy Fall 2022
“Beautiful Chaos: Resolving Du Bois and Locke With Stand-up Comedy” APA Eastern Division Conference 2023, Montreal, Canada, International Association of the Philosophy of Humor Spring 2023
“A Phenomenology of stand-up Comedy: Richard Pryor, Heidegger, and the disclosure of (comedic) truth” — APA Central Division Conference 2022, Chicago, IL for the International Association of the Philosophy of Humor Spring 2022
“A Mark of a Good Soul”: A Kantian Account of Environmental Aesthetic Appreciation – APA Eastern Division Conference 2023, Montreal, Canada Graduate Poster Session Spring 2023
Comments on “Cugoano’s Distributive Approach to Responsibility” by Iziah Topete, APA Central Division Conference 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana