Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and a non-resident Fellow, Harvard University, Leonard Harris is the appointed William Paterson University's University Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2002-2003. He specializes in social and political philosophy, philosophy of social science and American philosophy, with particular emphasis on African American Philosophy, Marx, Weber, and Dewey.
Professor Harris is a graduate faculty member of Purdue University's Philosophy Department, English and Philosophy Department Program, Communications and Philosophy Department Programs, American Studies, former Director of African American Studies at Purdue. He is the editor of Racism (competing theories of explanation by authors from global geographical regions); The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke (authors from America, Europe, and Africa considering contributions and limitations of Locke's value theory); The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (major treatises and previously unpublished works by Locke); Children in Chaos: A Philosophy for Children Experience (an account of a teaching experience); and Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917 (works by and about African American philosophic activity). He is the co-editor with S. Pratt and A. Waters of American Philosophies (anthology of 19th and early 20th century philosophers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and competing philosophical traditions); co-editor with A. Zegeye and J. Maxted of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class (sociological and philosophical accounts) as well as the book editor of the Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience. Published in journals such as the "International Philosophical Quarterly," "Presence Africaine," and "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Journal," he has presented professional papers at such universities as Oxford University, England, Cambridge University, England, Sorbonne, France, University of Brazil, Brazil, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Makerere University, Uganda, and Harvard University. He has been affiliated with research institutions in Brazil, England and America and holds Board/Executive memberships with professorial organizations and heads the Alain L. Locke Society and the Philosophy Born of Struggle Association.

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