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:
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And visit the conference website:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html



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