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ETHICS EVENT: J. Reid Miller - "Why Race Has Always Been Ethical"

Jerry Miller
November 27, 2017
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Hagerty Hall 145

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Add to Calendar 2017-11-27 14:30:00 2017-11-27 16:00:00 ETHICS EVENT: J. Reid Miller - "Why Race Has Always Been Ethical" The Department of Comparative Studies presents "Why Race Has Always Been Ethical" J. Reid Miller J. Reid Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. He is the author of the book Stain Removal: Ethics and Race (Oxford University Press, 2016). Engaging a wide range of theorists and writings from the Biblical story of Ham, to Socrates, Immanuel Kant, Alain Locke, Onora O'Neill, Frantz Fanon, Langston Hughes, and Louis Althusser, Stain Removal crosses disciplinary boundaries to advance a compelling theory of the evaluative nature of all representation. It employs the framework of race to reconsider key premises about how subjects are ethically interpreted. Miller has also published in Critical Inquiry and Philosophy and Social Criticism. He received his PhD in  History of Consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz and has been a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford Fellow.  Hagerty Hall 145 Center for Ethics and Human Values cehv@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Department of Comparative Studies presents

 

"Why Race Has Always Been Ethical"

 

J. Reid Miller

 

J. Reid Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. He is the author of the book Stain Removal: Ethics and Race (Oxford University Press, 2016). Engaging a wide range of theorists and writings from the Biblical story of Ham, to Socrates, Immanuel Kant, Alain Locke, Onora O'Neill, Frantz Fanon, Langston Hughes, and Louis Althusser, Stain Removal crosses disciplinary boundaries to advance a compelling theory of the evaluative nature of all representation. It employs the framework of race to reconsider key premises about how subjects are ethically interpreted. Miller has also published in Critical Inquiry and Philosophy and Social Criticism. He received his PhD in  History of Consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz and has been a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford Fellow.