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1110 Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and CosmopolitanismIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 235-260. 2024.
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2Introduction: Prolegomenon to Inter-American PhilosophyIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-8. 2024.
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17Philosophizing the Americas (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2024.Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerg…Read more
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12Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Alain Locke, the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world, from Aristotle to Obama. For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations' define new-and controversial-terrain
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6Animal Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 33 (102): 15-20. 2005.
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34Animal Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 33 (102): 15-20. 2005.
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913When Reason Fails Us: How We Act and What We Do When We Do Not Know What to DoThe Pluralist 8 (1): 63-96. 2013.An important feature of so-called rational decision making, at least in times of crisis, is arational: that is, our ability to decide manifests features of our characters or the values we hold rather than our reasoning abilities.1 Such a position stands in obvious opposition to the Western philosophical tradition. Consider, by comparison, the view of Immanuel Kant, who held that reason could, and perhaps sometimes ought to, operate independently of (and in opposition to) our sentiments. Contrary…Read more
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10Hugh P. McDonald. John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 227. Cloth ISBN 0-7914-5873-3. Paper ISBN 0-7914-5874-1 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 2 (1): 208-210. 2005.
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23Just/New War TheoryPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 16 (2): 1-11. 2009.This paper considers the increasingly common suggestion that a new form of warfare has emerged. It clarifies the notion of new wars and responds to an argument for the claim that in order to achieve military parity non-state actors must violate just war principles. I reject the claim that violation of just war principles is necessary and argue that we can make reasonable normative judgments about new wars in terms of just war theory. From there, I consider the possibility that military parity ca…Read more
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20Just/New War TheoryPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 16 (2): 1-11. 2009.This paper considers the increasingly common suggestion that a new form of warfare has emerged. It clarifies the notion of new wars and responds to an argument for the claim that in order to achieve military parity non-state actors must violate just war principles. I reject the claim that violation of just war principles is necessary and argue that we can make reasonable normative judgments about new wars in terms of just war theory. From there, I consider the possibility that military parity ca…Read more
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24John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 61-64. 2004.
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17Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice (edited book)Palgrave. 2023.'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is “Black Live…Read more
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19Hugh P. McDonald. John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 227. Cloth ISBN 0-7914-5873-3. Paper ISBN 0-7914-5874-1 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 2 (1): 208-210. 2005.
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46Environmental Pragmatism, Global Warming, and Climate ChangeContemporary Pragmatism 9 (1): 133-150. 2012.This paper begins with a presentation of some important aspects of the science behind global warming. Following that, I argue that attempts to address global warming and climate change as problems facing humanity ought not to center around economic understandings of the problem or it solutions. Moreover, I argue that pragmatism is especially vulnerable to this sort of misappropriation in seeking solutions to climate change, and that environmental pragmatists ought to make a conscious effort to a…Read more
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109Does “Race” Have a Future or Should the Future Have “Races”? Reconstruction or Eliminativism in a Pragmatist Philosophy of RaceTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 50 (1): 29. 2014.In Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward A Reconstruction of Philosophy, Phillip Kitcher argues in Chapter 6, “Does ‘Race’ Have a Future” that developments in evolutionary biology may support a separation of our species into subcategories that could be regarded as races. The human species, he argues, could possibly be divided, using a similar methodology to that employed by evolutionary biologists, into relatively stable and isolated breeding populations that bear distinctive and salient clusters of si…Read more
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59Differences in DangerousnessPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 19 (2): 81-91. 2012.This article begins with a consideration of the standard argument for the moral equality of soldiers; namely, that soldiers are morally equal because they pose similar dangers to one another. Next, arguments for the equal application of the rules of war to both sides are considered and ultimately rejected. In the end, it is argued that if the justice of the cause for war is attributable to the warriors on either side, then modifying or unequally applying the rules of war is in some cases the mor…Read more
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8Death by a Thousand Cuts: Insurrectionist Ethics in a Present less Oppressive than the PastIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Darryl Scriven (eds.), Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, Palgrave. pp. 255-278. 2023.This chapter is intended to provide a new definition of insurrectionist ethics that cuts in many ways against the grain of positions already engraved in the literature. That is done by considering the various elements of a novel definition of insurrectionist ethics. One that treats fundamental, structural, and systemic oppression as the conditions that give warrant to an insurrectionist response. A notion of necro-depictions is articulated as an essential conceptual tool to understanding the dut…Read more
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