About

My name is Muhammad Velji and I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western University

My main work is in political philosophy using post-colonial feminism but also both analytic and 20th Century continental philosophy.

I have competency and can teach philosophy of law and philosophy of race.

My dissertation is entitled, The Philosophy of Piety: How Muslim Women who Veil Allow us to Rethink Automaticity, Agency, Adaptive Preferences, and Autonomy

Check out the preprint of my forthcoming article in Inquiry

and the open access article forthcoming in Hypatia

and my new book project Practical Abolition:  The Meso-Level of the Political, Transformative Justice and Rethinking Social Change     

I will be presenting my new work on the Meso-level about affordances and relational autonomy at Spelman College in Atlanta at conference on 4E and Feminism https://women-4e.com/2024/04/29/call-for-papers-submission-deadline-7-1-2024/

Also, I think???, I will be at the Eastern Association for Philosophy Conference, if you are planning on attending, come say hi to me!