 Third, the discussion will approach the field as a paradisciplinary formation, which is to say that it will focus on work that happens or might happen in and near philosophy departments. In speaking here of proximity to philosophy departments, I mean principally to capture two overlapping categories of thinkers: scholars who take up recognizably philosophical themes or resources in, say, departments of English or political science; and historical figures without the sort of departmental affiliation that registers for scholars now, but who make the kinds of moves and noises that encourage philosophers to invite them into their narratives of the field. Which is to say: if philosophy of social science can have Clifford Geertz and philosophy writ large can have Hume, Kierkegaard, Emerson, and Jane Addams, then Africana philosophy can have Patricia Hill Collins and Alexander Crummell (both of whom will return below).