Gender, Race and Philosophy: The Blog

Publishing Survey

All professional philosophers are invited to participate in a survey on publishing in philosophy.  It should take about 10 minutes.  It will be useful to have your CV handy as you fill it out.  Please go here to find it.  It is especially important for women and philosophers of color to complete it so we have a statistically significant representation of underrepresented groups.

If all goes well, I will report on the results at the December APA in the symposium on philosophy publishing (Wednesday December 30th, 11:15-1:15). 

Reparations Symposium

Notice from Derrick Darby:
I am pleased to bring your attention to a reparations symposium that I have organized for the University of Kansas taking place on October 31, 2008 in Lawrence, KS at the School of Law.  The papers will be published in the spring issue of the Kansas Law Review.  The main question of the symposium is:  What can law learn from empirical research on racial inequalities when considering the matter of reparations for slavery?  Feel free to pass on news of this event to parties that might find it of interest.
For more information see the schedule linked here or contact Prof Darby at ddarby@ku.edu.

More on Eze and a new Symposium

The Symposia on Gender Race and Philosophy has published another commentary in the Emmanuel Eze memorial issue by Ifeanyi Menkiti (Wellesley College).

The Spring 2008 symposium on A. W. Eaton's "A Sensible Antiporn Feminism" (Ethics 2007) now has commentaries published by Patrick Hopkins, Rae Langton, and Laurie Shrage.  A further commentary by Ishani Maitra and a reply by A. W. Eaton are forthcoming.

Enjoy!

New blog on "disability, ethics, philosophy, race"

There's a new blog coming out of Philosophy at the U of Alberta, What Sorts of People.  It's associated with a large-scale research project with more of less the same name that pulls together about 60 researchers--a number of them philosophers of science, bioethicists, folks working on disability, the history of eugenics, enhancement technologies--mostly from Canada and the US, but also with a wider reach.  Check it out!

California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race 2008

Here is the announcement and call for papers for the 5th annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race.  Note that the deadline for submissions is April 30, 2008.

The 5th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
University of California, Berkeley
October 3-4, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Maria Lugones, Binghamton University

The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race announces a call for papers for its fifth annual roundtable, to be held October 3-4, 2008 at UC Berkeley. This roundtable brings together philosophers of race, and those working in related fields in a small and congenial setting to share their work and to help further this sub-discipline.  Papers are invited on any philosophical issue regarding race, ethnicity, or racism, and including those that take up race in the context of another topic, such as feminism, political philosophy, ethics, justice, culture, identity, biology, phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, metaphysics, or epistemology.

Submissions are especially encouraged from junior scholars and philosophers of color.  We seek to foster a productive and intellectually stimulating environment for those working in philosophy and race.  The Roundtable also aspires to bring together junior and senior scholars to develop and enhance constructive mentoring relationships.

Registration is free but please register by email by April 30, 2008. Papers should be no more than 30 minutes in length. Please submit full paper or detailed abstract (2-3 pages), as MS word .doc or .pdf document to fsheth@berkeley.edu by April 30, 2008.

CFP for posting: Download CRPRcfp08.pdf

New Perspectives in Race Theory

I've organized a small conference of new work in analytic race theory at the University of San Francisco.  The conference will be held on April 25 - 26, 2008.  It is free and open to the public.  More information can be found at:  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html

The presenters, and the titles of their presentations, are:

Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal),  "Race, moral ills and emotions: for a finer texturing of emotions underlying racial ills"

Eduard Machery (University of Pittsburgh),  "The Folk Concept of Race"

Ron Mallon (University of Utah),  "Beyond Non-Essentialism and Toward a New Standard Anti-Racialist Argument"

Quayshawn Spencer (Stanford University),  "Is Cladistic Race a Genuine Kind?"

Paul Taylor (Temple University), “The Racial Stance: Pragmatism and Post-Analytic Race Theory”

Mark Risjord (Emory University), "Race and Social Role"

Julie Shulman (Alliant International University) and Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington),  "Is Race-Thinking Biological, Social, or Something Else, and Does It Matter for Racism?  An Exploratory Study”

Michael Root (University of Minnesota),  "The Use of Racial Categories in the Social and Biomedical Sciences"

Yolonda Wilson (Duke University),  "BiDil and the Ethics of Racialized Medicine"

Keynote: Sally Haslanger (MIT), "Race, Gender and Ideology Critique"

Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology

The Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology has launched a website:
http://whp.uoregon.edu/sifp
Check it out!
--SH

Mini conference at Pacific APA

I just got an email announcing a mini-conference in conjunction with the Pacific APA:
Making Philosophy of Science More Socially Relevant, March 19-20, 2008, Pasadena Hilton.  Organizing Committee: Nancy Cartwright, Sophia Efstathiou, Helen Longino, Katie Plaisance
There are sessions on race and on feminist philosophy of science:
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/proceedings/v81n3/Public/miniconferenceprog.asp
I wish I could be there!  I hope someone will blog about it afterwards.

--SH