- Assistant Professor
- Email: dtdeere@tamu.edu
- Office: YMCA 416
- Document: CV
- Website: Personal Website
Biography
Don Deere is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. He previously was a faculty member at Wesleyan University and received his PhD with distinction from DePaul University and BA from Cornell University. He is a Mellon Mays fellow and the recipient of a Mellon Career Enhancement Faculty Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Contemporary Continental European Philosophy. His book, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, is forthcoming with Duke University Press and he is the co-translator of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in 18th-Century Latin America, published with Rowman & Littlefield International in 2021.
Scholarly Achievements
- The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, Forthcoming)
Spring 2024 Course Schedule
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PHIL 251.516 - Introduction to Philosophy. T, TH - 12:45-2:00 p.m. - HEB 110.
Office Hours
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Monday – 3:00-4:00
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Wednesday – 11:00-12:00
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By Appointment
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in Philosophy with Distinction, DePaul University – 2016
- M.A. in Philosophy with Distinction, DePaul University – 2009
- B.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University – 2007
- B.A. in Government, Cornell University – 2007
- Certificate in Latin American Studies, Cornell University – 2007
Research Interests
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- Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
- Decolonial Philosophy
- 20th Century Continental Philosophy
- Caribbean Philosophy
- Social & Political Philosophy
Research Areas
- Continental Philosophy
- Philosophies of the Global South