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7Teaching Philosophy from Scratch: Designing Dynamic Pedagogy for Adult ‘Firsts’SATS 24 (1): 71-92. 2023.I describe dynamic teaching to adult, mainly immigrant students, who are new to philosophy and often are college “firsts.” Adult students have family, financial, and work obligations, whereas standard students are leisured outside of class and approach philosophy as consumers. I teach from assigned texts, dismissing as a conceit of philosophers that philosophical questions arise from real life experience. My students are intensely focused on their grades, frugal with their expenditure of academi…Read more
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7Race and Philosophic MeaningIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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6The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy, with a New PrefaceRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015.Naomi Zack brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy enters into a web of ideas, ethics, and morals that untangle our evolving ideas of racial equality straight into the twenty-first century. In the preface to the paperback edition, Zack addresses the criticisms raised in response to this book and concludes that a focus on rights and justice, rather than pri…Read more
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5Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme PoliticsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2018.Zack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citizens and government. Analyzing current states of race, class, gender, and other measures of social wellbeing, Zack promotes a new social compact wherein citizens as a whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions to ensure stability.
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5Not Like Thales: Radical Philosophy from the Continental Tradition (review)Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 363-366. 2015.
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4Book Review: A Model for Re-Thinking Right and Wrong in the Academy: Zack and The Ethics and Mores of Race (review)Journal of Thought 47 (3): 78. 2012.
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3Ato Sekyi-Oto, Fanon's Dialectic of Experience Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (4): 276-278. 1997.
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3On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.
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1Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: All the old myths are not trueIn Rebecca Housel & J. Jeremy Wisnewski (eds.), Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality, Wiley. pp. 121--30. 2009.
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1Race and Racism: DvdMilk Bottle Productions. 2002.Is racism an act of the will? A disease? A bad habit? A result of lost virtues or of historical economic forces? Can we reliably claim that racism is an affront to justice? How does our scientific understanding of "race" affect our ethical considerations? How can we ever know if we are acting from racist assumptions? With Leonard Harris, Naomi Zack, and Hugh Taft-Morales.
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Berel Lang, "Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (2): 152. 1992.
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Philosophy and racial paradigmsIn Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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Race and Racism: No Dogs or Philosophers AllowedDVD. forthcoming.Is racism an act of the will? A disease? A bad habit? A result of lost virtues or of historical economic forces? Can we reliably claim that racism is an affront to justice? How does our scientific understanding of "race" affect our ethical considerations ? How can we ever know if we are acting from racist assumptions? With Leonard Harris, Naomi Zack, and Hugh Taft-Morales
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |