A Conference on Race and Philosophy

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Date and Time

Monday, February 22, 2021 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Location

Virtual event

Cost

Free

Details

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice and others have given rise to the need for a deeper conversation about race—a conversation to which philosophy is well equipped to contribute. In contributing to this necessary conversation, the philosophy department presents a conference. This conference has the aim of elucidating positions within academic discussions of, as well as evoke thought about, race. The conference will engage a broad range of questions from a philosophical perspective but will do so in a way that can be appreciated by both those interested in disciplines other than philosophy as well as a broader public audience. Sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Values Institute. Coordinated by Corey Barnes, PhD, and Marilynn Johnson, PhD, from the Department of Philosophy.

Monday, February 22:

Metaphysics of Race (10:40-11:50 a.m.):

“On the Value of Minimalist Race”
Michael Hardimon, PhD | Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

“Hardimon’s Deflationary Realism: A Cultural Constructionist Critique”
Chike Jeffers, PhD | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

Racism (12:20-1:30 p.m.):

“Seemingly Rational Racists and Moral Demands on Belief”
Rima Basu, PhD | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

“The Politics of ‘Inflated’ Definitions of Racism”
Alberto Urquidez, PhD | CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Bowdoin College

Race and Education (1:40-2:50 p.m.):

“School Integration cannot bring about Educational Equality but is the Essential Foundation for Civic Education in a Multiracial Democracy”
Lawrence Blum, PhD | Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education and Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston

“National Flash-points as a Form of Education about Race”
John Torrey, PhD | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo State University

Tuesday, February 23:

Race and Politics (10:40-11:50 p.m.):

“Moral Eugenics Applied: The 1964 Civil Rights Act and The Radical 3^rd Founding of America”
Jason D. Hill, PhD | Professor of Philosophy, De Paul University

“Are Police Picking on Blacks?”
Jason L. Riley | Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

Race and Medicine (12:20-1:30 p.m.):

“What Makes an Anti-Racist Feminist Bioethics?”
Camisha Russell, PhD | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon

“Is Trust Enough? Antiblack Racism and Medical Encounters”
Yolanda Y. Wilson, PhD | Associate Professor in Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University

Race and Art (1:40-2:50 p.m.):

“Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination”
Luvell Anderson, PhD | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University

“Black-Raced Art”
Janine Jones, PhD | Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Sponsor(s)

begin quoteThe deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice and others have given rise to the need for a deeper conversation about race â€“ a conversation to which philosophy is well equipped to contribute.