• About
  • News
  • Events
    • Regular Reading Groups
    • Seminars
    • Public talks
  • Research
    • Conference reports
    • History of Philosophy
    • Mind, Metaphysics, Psychology
    • Formal Methods
    • Rationality
  • Ideas
    • Interviews
    • Essays
  • Resources
  • Department Events Calendar

King's Philosophy

~ Official blog of the philosophy department at King's College London.

King's Philosophy

Author Archives: kclmap

MAP Reading Group #3

19 Saturday Oct 2019

Posted by kclmap in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

This coming Wednesday, MAP will meet to discus Kristie Dotson’s paper ‘How Is This Paper Philosophy?’

File: Doston – How is this paper philosophy?Download

1-2pm, Wednesday 23rd October

Activity Room E, 8th Floor South East Wing, Bush House

In the paper, Dotson considers how a culture of justification in academic philosophy is creating a difficult working environment for academic philosophers from diverse backgrounds and what can be done to change this! As the paper is a bit on the longer side, we will be focusing on sections 2-5, but you are more than welcome to read the whole thing if you have the time and energy!  

The reading is open to all! Please feel free to come along and join.

MAP x PhilSoc screening: ‘The Stuart Hall Project’

11 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by kclmap in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

In celebration of Black History Month, MAP and PhilSoc will be co-hosting a film screening of the documentary ‘The Stuart Hall Project’ (2013), written and directed by Black British artist and writer John Akomfrah.

Tuesday 15th October, 18:00-20:00

Strand Campus, S -1.27 (wheelchair accessible)

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British philosopher, critical theorist, sociologist, and Marxist. He is considered one of the founding figures of the ‘New Left’ political movement of the 60s and 70s, as we as central to the development of Cultural Studies in Britain. The documentary looks at Hall’s life from colonial Jamaica to British intellectual, exploring themes of identity, diaspora, post-coloniality, and what it meant to be Black and British during the 70s.

The film screening is open to all!

If you are non-King’s student you will need to book a ticket on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuart-hall-project-film-screening-tickets-75169129891

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1359864710849465/

Minorities and Philosophy Reading Group – #2

07 Monday Oct 2019

Posted by kclmap in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

KCL MAP reading group will be meeting 13:00 – 14:00 next Wednesday, 9th October, in Activity room E, KCLSU (Bush House, South East Wing). The reading is ‘Reparations and Racial Inequality’, by Derrick Darby, University of Kansas (see file/abstract below). The reading group is open to all — staff, students, PGTs and PGRs, within and external to the department. All are welcome to attend!

For regular updates, join our Facebook reading group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/581544455595991/

Or sign up to our mailing list by emailing: mapforthegap.kcl@gmail.com

Reading File: ‘Reparations and Racial Inequality’Download

Abstract: A recent development in philosophical scholarship on reparations for black chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation is reliance upon social science in normative arguments for reparations. Although there are certainly positive things to be said in favor of an empirically informed normative argument for black reparations, given the depth of empirical disagreement about the causes of persistent racial inequalities, and the ethos of ‘post-racial’ America, the strongest normative argument for reparations may be one that goes through irrespective of how we ultimately explain the causes of racial inequalities. By illuminating the interplay between normative political philosophy and social scientific explanations of racial inequality in the prevailing corrective justice argument for black reparations, I shall explain why an alternative normative argument, which is not tethered to a particular empirical explanation of racial inequality, may be more appealing.


Newer posts →
  • Ancient Philosophy at King’s
  • Early Modern Philosophy at King’s
  • Epistemology at King’s
  • Medieval Philosophy at King’s
  • Mind at King’s
  • Political Philosophy at King’s

Tags

ancient philosophy Andrea Sangiovanni applied ethics art Art and Philosophy British Society for the History of Philosophy Clayton Littlejohn conference conferences David Papineau employment epistemology ethics Events formal epistemology Formal Methods graduate students guest speakers History of Philosophy Hobbes interview Jessica Leech jobs John Callanan Julien Dutant Kant KHOP Maria Rosa Antognazza Mark Textor metaphysics Michael Beaney migration MM McCabe performance art Philosophy and Medicine Philosophy in Prisons philosophy of language philosophy of mathematics philosophy of medicine philosophy of mind philosophy of science political philosophy postdoc publications radio Rationality Research at King's Sacha Golob Sarah Fine workshop

Follow King’s Philosophy on Twitter

My Tweets

A WordPress.com Website.

  • Follow Following
    • King's Philosophy
    • Join 22,569 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • King's Philosophy
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...