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40Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices. On the other hand, there is the question of characterization, which concerns the actions, experiences, beliefs, values, desires, character traits, etc. that we take to be attributable to a person over time. While leaving the former question for…Read more
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27Imperatives of PeaceThe Acorn 17 (1): 5-31. 2017.Cosmopolitanism seems to appeal to liberal neutrality because both are committed to core values such as reciprocity, autonomy, respect for the individual, personal accountability, and inclusivity. Further, cosmopolitanism is legitimate for many only insofar as it endorses value-pluralism in open societies, which is a staple of liberal neutrality. And yet, one might think that there is a moral obligation to create a cosmopolitan community. One can think of this as moral cosmopolitanism. To the en…Read more
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7Insurrectionist Ethics, Moral Suasion, and Violent Protests for Poor PolicingIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Darryl Scriven (eds.), Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, Palgrave. pp. 133-156. 2023.Leonard Harris distinguished moral suasion from insurrectionist ethics, and argued that moral suasion possessed inadequate character virtues for ending slavery. For Harris insurrectionist ethics possessed a counter set of character virtues and actions following from them that were more prudent and dignity-affirming for ending slavery. This chapter extends Harris’ distinction and charge against moral suasion to protests in response to poor policing. Moral suasionist tactics such as peaceful prote…Read more
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8Alain Locke on the Theoretical Foundations for a Just and Successful PeaceSpringer Verlag. 2022.Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who thought through practical and theoretical problems regarding the nature of cosmopolitanism, democracy, race, value, religion, art, and education. Although Locke’s philosophical work has been discussed in parts, there has been no th…Read more
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35An Account of Normative StereotypingJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 21 (3). 2022.Adrian Piper provides an excellent way of thinking about both what motivates discrimination and the relationship between stereotyping and discrimination. Piper elucidates two kinds of political discrimination, namely first- and higher-order political discrimination. The relationship between discrimination and stereotyping can be captured by a form that I call “discrimination from descriptive stereotyping.” Here, stereotypical properties are taken to be possessed by and principally define individ…Read more
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1275The Social Nature of Individual Self-Identity: Akan and Narrative Conceptions of PersonhoodComparative Philosophy 7 (1): 1-19. 2015.Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices. On the other hand, there is the question of characterization, which concerns the actions, experiences, beliefs, values, desires, character traits, etc. that we take to be attributable to a person over time. While leaving the former question for…Read more
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18Imperatives of Peace: A Lockean Justification for Cosmopolitan PrinciplesThe Acorn 17 (1): 5-31. 2017.Cosmopolitanism seems to appeal to liberal neutrality because both are committed to core values such as reciprocity, autonomy, respect for the individual, personal accountability, and inclusivity. Further, cosmopolitanism is legitimate for many only insofar as it endorses value-pluralism in open societies, which is a staple of liberal neutrality. And yet, one might think that there is a moral obligation to create a cosmopolitan community. One can think of this as moral (normative) cosmopolitanis…Read more
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African/Africana Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Social and Political Philosophy |