Symposia List

Volume 1 (2005): one issue only

Number 1 (Spring, two symposia)

Symposium I:  Lionel McPherson and Tommie Shelby, "Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African-American Identity." Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 32, no. 2 (2004): 171-193.
Commentaries by Lisa Gannett, Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., Paul Taylor, Gregory Velazco y Trianosky.
Reply by Lionel McPherson and Tommie Shelby.

Symposium II: José Medina, "Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference." Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 29, no. 6 (2003): 655-680.
Commentaries by Marilyn Frye, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Peg O’Connor.
Reply by José Medina.

Volume 2 (2006): two issues

Number 1 (Winter, two symposia)

Symposium I:  Elizabeth S. Anderson, "Uses of Value Judgments in Feminist Social Science: A Case Study of Research on Divorce," Hypatia 19:1 (2004): 1-24.
Commentaries by Linda Alcoff, Sharyn Clough, Marianne Janack, Charles Mills.
Reply by Elizabeth S. Anderson.

Symposium II:  Anita Superson, "Privilege, Immorality, and Responsibility for Attending to the "Facts about Humanity," Journal of Social Philosophy, v. 35, n. 1 (2004), pp. 34-55.    
Commentaries by Louise Antony, Stephen Darwall, Laurence Thomas, Jennifer Uleman.
Reply by Anita Superson.

Number 2 (Spring, one symposium)

Eammon Callan, "The Ethics of Assimilation." Ethics 115:3 (2005): 471-500.
Commentaries by Lawrence Blum, Lionel McPherson, Kathryn Gines and Anna Stubblefield.
Reply by Eamon Callan.

Volume 3 (2007): three issues

Number 1 (Winter, one symposium)   

Iris Marion Young, “Responsibility and Global Labor Justice.” The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 12, Number 4, 2004, pp. 365--388.
Commentaries by Lewis Gordon, Alison M. Jaggar, Eduardo Mendieta, Mickaella Perina.

Number 2 (Spring, one symposium) 

Margaret Urban Walker,  “Restorative Justice and Reparations.”Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 37 No. 3, Fall 2006, 377--395
Commentaries by Trudy Govier, Alice MacLachlan, Elizabeth Spelman
Reply by Margaret U. Walker

Number 3 (Fall, one symposium)

Noëlle McAfee, “Two Feminisms.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2005.
Commentaries by Amy R. Allen, Nancy Bauer, Scott Pratt, Linda M. G. Zerilli.
Reply by Noëlle McAfee.

Volume 4 (2008): three issues

Number 1 (Winter, one symposium)

Kelly Oliver, The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward a Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Commentaries by:  Shannon Winnubst, Stacy Keltner
Reply by Kelly Oliver

Special Issue on Emmanuel Eze (Spring 2008)

Memorial comments by Bruce Jenz.
Commentaries on Eze’s posthumously published book (Fall 2008):  On Reason: Rationality for a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism.
John Pittman, “Reading Reason with Emmanuel Eze”,
Ifeanyi Menkiti “On Rationality and the Burden of the Ijele Masquerade: A Note on E. Eze’s Work”

Number 2 (Spring, one symposium)

A. W. Eaton, “A Sensible Anti-Porn Feminism” Ethics 117 (July 2007): 674-715.
Commentaries by Patrick D. Hopkins, Rae Langton, Ishani Maitra, Laurie Shrage.
Reply by A.W. Eaton.

Volume 5 (2009): two issues

Number 1 (Spring, one symposium)

Ann E. Cudd, Analyzing Oppression (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Commentaries by Sally Scholz (Villanova), Deborah Tollefsen (U. Memphis) and Helga Varden (UIUC).  

Reply by Ann E. Cudd

Number 2 (Fall, one symposium)

Joshua Glasgow, A Theory of Race (Routledge 2009).

Commentaries by Michael O. Hardimon (UCSD), Sally Haslanger (MIT), Ron Mallon (U. Utah), and Naomi Zack (U. Oregon).

Reply by Joshua Glasgow

Volume 6 (2010):

Number 1 (Spring, one symposium) FORTHCOMING

Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy.  (Indiana University Press, 2009).
Commentaries by Alia Al-Saji, Kathryn T. Gines, Shannon Sullivan, and William Wilkerson.
Reply by Ladelle McWhorter