William Paris

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

William Paris is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is associate editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race and co-hosts the podcast What’s Left of Philosophy. He is working on the book ‘Racial Justice and Forms of Life: Towards a Critical Theory of Utopia’.

Written by William Paris

Painting of a rural scene with a factory, hills, a man with a horse and two people sitting on a hill overlooking a train track.

Utopian thinking prompts us to get real about society’s needs

Visions of utopia challenge what is considered to be realistic and help us start to see what must change in social life

by William Paris