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138Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor’s and Nancy Fraser’s Accounts of MulticulturalismConstellations 5 (1): 51-68. 1998.Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of DiscourseRichard J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish QuestionDavid Ames Curtis, The Castoriadis ReaderDavid Ames Curtis, World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis and the ImaginationMorris Kaplan, Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire.
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14The Poles, the Jews and the holocaust: reflections on an AME trip to AuschwitzJournal of Moral Education 33 (2): 131-148. 2004.Two trips to Auschwitz (in 1989 and 2003) provide a context for reflection on fundamental issues in civic and moral education. Custodians of the Auschwitz historical site are currently aware of its responsibility to humanity to educate about the genocide against the Jews, as a morally distinct element in its presentation of Nazi crimes at Auschwitz. Prior to the fall of Communism in 1989, the site's message was dominated by a misleading civic narrative about Polish victimization by, and resistan…Read more
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65Racialized Groups: The Sociohistorical ConsensusThe Monist 93 (2): 298-320. 2010.Among race scholars, there is a general consensus that (1) groups thought to be races in the 19th/20th century do not possess the characteristics attributed to them in classic racial ideology, (2) such groups are nevertheless intergenerational collectivities with distinctive social and historical experiences, and (3) those experiences were and are deeply shaped by the false beliefs of classic racial ideology. The groups of whom this consensus is true are felicitously called “racialized groups,” …Read more
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45Moral Perception and ParticularityCambridge University Press. 1994.Most contemporary moral philosophy is concerned with issues of rationality, universality, impartiality, and principle. By contrast Laurence Blum is concerned with the psychology of moral agency. The essays in this collection examine the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgment, perception, and group identifications, and explore how all these psychic capacities contribute to a morally good life. Blum takes up the challenge of Iris Murdoch to articulate a vision of moral excellence that provi…Read more
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24High Schools, Race, and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and CommunityHarvard Education Press. 2012.In High Schools, Race, and America’s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor on the …Read more
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38Freundschaft als moralisches PhänomenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (2): 217-234. 1997.
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AltruismIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 1--35. 1992.
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863Racism: What It Is and What It Isn'tStudies in Philosophy and Education 21 (3): 203-218. 2002.The words ‘racist’ and ‘racism’ have become so overused that they nowconstitute obstacles to understanding and interracial dialogue about racial matters. Insteadof the current practice of referring to virtually anything that goes wrong or amiss withrespect to race as ‘racism,’ we should recognize a much broader moral vocabulary forcharacterizing racial ills – racial insensitivity, racial ignorance, racial injustice, racialdiscomfort, racial exclusion. At the sa…Read more
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124Moral Exemplars: Reflections on Schindler, the Trocmes, and OthersMidwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1): 196-221. 1988.
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126Kant's and Hegel's Moral Rationalism: A Feminist PerspectiveCanadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (2). 1982.
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129Iris Murdoch and the domain of the moralPhilosophical Studies 50 (3). 1986.In The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch suggests that the central task of the moral agent involves a true and loving perception of an- other individual, who is seen as a particular reality external to the agent. Writing in the 1960s she claimed that this dimension of morality had been "theorized away" in contemporary ethics. I will argue today that 20 years later, this charge still holds true of much contemporary ethical theory
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2Empathy and Empirical Psychology: A Critique of Shaun Nichols's Neo-SentimentalismIn Carla Bagnoli (ed.), Morality and the Emotions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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39Review of John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (8). 2003.
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238Moral perception and particularityEthics 101 (4): 701-725. 1991.Most contemporary moral philosophy is concerned with issues of rationality, universality, impartiality, and principle. By contrast Laurence Blum is concerned with the psychology of moral agency. The essays in this collection examine the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgment, perception, and group identifications, and explore how all these psychic capacities contribute to a morally good life. Blum takes up the challenge of Iris Murdoch to articulate a vision of moral excellence that provi…Read more
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2Against deriving particularityIn Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral particularism, Oxford University Press. pp. 205--226. 2000.
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783Three kinds of race-related solidarityJournal of Social Philosophy 38 (1). 2007.Solidarity within a group facing adversity exemplifies certain human goods, some instrumental to the goal of mitigating the adversity, some non-instrumental, such as trust, loyalty, and mutual concern. Group identity, shared experience, and shared political commitments are three distinct but often-conflated bases of racial group solidarity. Solidarity groups built around political commitments include members of more than one identity group, even when the political focus is primarily on the justi…Read more
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31Recognition and Multiculturalism in EducationJournal of Philosophy of Education 35 (4): 539-559. 2001.Charles Taylor’s ‘Politics of Recognition’ has given philosophical substance to the idea of ‘recognition’ and has solidified a link between recognition and multiculturalism. I argue that Taylor oversimplifies the valuational basis of recognition; fails to appreciate the difference between recognition of individuals and of groups; fails to articulate the value of individuality; fails to appreciate the difference between race and ethnoculture as dimensions of identity; and fails to appreciate equa…Read more
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53443Stereotypes And Stereotyping: A Moral AnalysisPhilosophical Papers 33 (3): 251-289. 2004.Stereotypes are false or misleading generalizations about groups, generally widely shared in a society, and held in a manner resistant, but not totally, to counterevidence. Stereotypes shape the stereotyper’s perception of stereotyped groups, seeing the stereotypic characteristics when they are not present, and generally homogenizing the group. The association between the group and the given characteristic involved in a stereotype often involves a cognitive investment weaker than that of belief.…Read more
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62Review of Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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PrejudiceIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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38Antiracist Moral Identities, or Iris Murdoch in South AfricaSouth African Journal of Philosophy 30 (4): 440-451. 2011.I argue that Samantha Vice understates the moral resources white people have available to them to minimize their falling into distorted ways of perceiving and responding to the world caused by bare white advantage. In doing so, she paints an unjustifiably pessimistic picture of white civic involvement in South Africa, and anywhere where white people are unjustly advantaged, such as the United States. I delineate two similar but distinct antiracist moral identities the 'white ally' and the 'perso…Read more
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165White Privilege, Injustice, and the "Black Lives Matter" MovementRadical Philosophy Review 19 (3): 681-688. 2016.
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415Latinos on race and ethnicity : Alcoff, Corlett, and GraciaIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 269-282. 2009.This article explicates the views on both race and ethnicity of these three prominent Latinx philosophers, compares them (somewhat), and offers some criticisms. Corlett jettisons race as a categorization of groups, but accepts a form of racialization somewhat at odds with this jettisoning. Gracia adopts as a general principle that an account of both ethnicity and race should help us see aspects of reality that would otherwise be obscured; but this is at odds with his regarding the Latin American…Read more
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