Kordell Dixon

Graduate Student

Kordell Dixon is a philosopher whose primary research interests lie in the philosophy of oppression, ethics, and social and political philosophy, with secondary interests in metaethics. His work engages questions of self-respect, moral obligation, and resistance in the context of structural injustice..

He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Kordell earned his M.A. in Philosophy from Virginia Tech in May 2022, where he completed a thesis titled Self-Respect and the Obligation to Resist Oppression under the guidance of Jordan MacKenzie, Philip Yaure, and Gil Hersch. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in African-American Studies from Howard University (2019), where he developed a lasting interest in the intersections of moral theory and Black political thought..

Kordell’s scholarship aims to illuminate the ethical dimensions of lived experience under oppression and to articulate frameworks for individual and collective resistance.