>>From Ronald Sundstrom <[email protected]> __________________________________________________
Conference Announcement "New Perspectives in Race Theory" Interdisciplinary Conference University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA (USA) 25-26 April 2008 __________________________________________________ Race theories in analytic philosophy have evolved over the last decade bringing advances on a variety of topics, ranging from the metaphysics of social categories to questions about the role of race in medicine. Its influence on the study of race and ethnicity has been substantial, and it has been a touchstone for debate and research on race and ethnicity in other fields. This conference focuses on that body of work, and showcases new perspectives in the analytic philosophy of race by upcoming and established philosophers. The presenters and their topics are: Robin Andreason (University of Delaware) "Human Kinds as Interactive Kinds: A Reply to Mallon" Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal) "Race, Moral Ills and Emotions: For a Finer Texturing of Emotions Underlying Racial Ills" Eduard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) "The Folk Concept of Race" Ron Mallon (University of Utah) "Beyond Non-Essentialism and Toward a New Standard Anti-Racialist Argument" Quayshawn Spencer (Stanford) "Is Cladistic Race a Genuine Kind?" Mark Risjord (Emory) "Race and Social Role" Julie Shulman (Alliant International University) and Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington) "Is Race-Thinking Biological, Social, or Something Else, and Does It Matter for Racism? An Exploratory Study" Michael Root (University of Minnesota) "The Use of Racial Categories in the Social and Biomedical Sciences" Yolonda Wilson (Duke University) "BiDil and the Ethics of Racialized Medicine" The Keynote lecture will be given by Sally Haslanger (MIT), and her topic will be, "Race, Gender and Ideology Critique." This conference is sponsored by the philosophy department of the University of San Francisco through the generous support of the Mortimer Fleishhacker Endowment. It is free and open to the public, but please register by emailing the organizer. For more information contact Ronald Sundstrom: [email protected] And visit the conference website: http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
