Frederick Mills

Frederick B. Mills, also cited as Frederick Mills, is a philosopher based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from American University in 1985 and taught for 30 years as Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University, where he continues to teach as an adjunct professor. Among his articles, book chapters, book reviews, and other scholarly publications is Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation: An Introduction, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. His work spans philosophy of mind, ethics and public policy, early modern philosophy, existential phenomenology, the philosophy of liberation, and contemporary U.S. and Latin American political analysis. Across his scholarship and public work, Mills has promoted decolonial theory and praxis, with particular attention to liberation ethics, hemispheric solidarity, and struggles for social justice in Latin America and the United States. He is also a founding board member of the Association for Educational Development in El Salvador, ADEES, Inc.