Linda Martín Alcoff on Charles W. Mills; Ian James Kidd on Paul Feyerabend
Charles W. Mills remembered; an event on pseudoscience
Dear all,
The line-up for our new events series is now complete. As always, the events are free and open to everyone:
Also, our new print issue on “Where is Public Philosophy Going?”, guest-edited by Peter West and Jon Hawkins, is coming together beautifully. Much more on that in the weeks ahead. It will be published mid-October.
Your Sunday Read
“A Particularly Wonderful Human Being”: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the life and legacy of Charles W. Mills who died two years ago this week. Last year, Darren Chetty and Adam Ferner guest-edited a section of our spring issue on the life and legacy of the hugely influential political philosopher Charles W. Mills. In this conversation from that issue, Mills’ friend and colleague Linda Martín Alcoff discusses his life and work and their shared history. You can read the interview here.
You can also read George Yancy’s powerful essay, “Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy” (published in the same issue), here.
Monday Event: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
Pseudoscience after Feyerabend
Ian James Kidd in conversation with Chiara Ambrosio
Renowned philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend famously defended astrology, voodoo, witchcraft, Chinese traditional medicine, and other “non-scientific” beliefs, practices, and traditions. It is partly for these defences that, during the 1970s, Feyerabend became famous – or, rather, infamous – and they contributed to his now established image as an “epistemological anarchist” and “the worst enemy of science”.
In this event, Ian James Kidd and Chiara Ambrosio will use Feyerabend as a starting point for thinking through many of the key epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, political, and ethical questions raised by pseudoscience. They will also explore why pseudoscience became a topic in the history of philosophy of science and how this topic relates to newer insights into scientific pluralism. Find our more and register here.
Recordings of last week’s events
For those of you who missed Monday’s event on “Feminist Philosophy of Mind” featuring Janine Jones, Amy Kind, and Naomi Scheman with Jennifer McWeeny, you can watch the recording here.
For those of you who missed Tuesday’s event on “The Theory and Practice of Solidarity” featuring Mie Inouye and Daniel HoSang, you can watch the recording here.
Ending
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Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, wherever you are.
Anthony Morgan
Editor