María del Rosario Acosta López, UC Riverside, Dep. of Hispanic Studies
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María del Rosario Acosta López is Full Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies in UC Riverside and currently the International Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at Paris 8. She conducts research on Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, and more recently on Decolonial studies, with emphasis on questions of memory and trauma in the Americas. Her most recent publications are devoted to Aesthetics of Resistance in Latin American Art, Decolonial perspectives on Memory and History, and Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Violence. She is currently working on the final revisions of her next book, Gramáticas de la escucha: pensar la memoria después del trauma (Herder, 2021), and on the final editions of two forthcoming books, one in Spanish on community in Hegel, Nancy, Esposito and Agamben (Narrativas de la comunidad: de Hegel a los pensadores impolíticos), and one in English, The Unstoppable Murmur of Being-Together, co-authored with Jean-Luc Nancy and the Group on Law and Violence. Acosta also conducts workshops on liberatory memory and works with survivors of political violence, in Colombia with communities surviving paramilitary violence, and more recently in Chicago with police torture survivors.
Linda Alcoff, CUNY / The Graduate Center, Dep. of Philosophy
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Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She is a past President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Recent books include Rape and Resistance (Polity 2018), The Future of Whiteness (Polity 2015), Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford 2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award for 2009. She is originally from Panama.
Ásta, San Francisco State University, Dep. of Philosophy
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Ásta is an Icelandic philosopher who is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works mainly in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy, and on related topics in epistemology and philosophy of language. She is the author of *Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories* (Oxford, 2018) and co-editor, with Kim Q. Hall, of *The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy* (in press). Her website is astaphilosophy.com
Anna Boncompagni, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
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Anna Boncompagni is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of UC Irvine. Her current research focuses on hinge epistemology, social epistemology and epistemic injustice. She is working in particular on the nature of prejudice and stereotype, which she investigates through the lenses of the later Wittgenstein’s thought. She has indeed a longstanding interest in Wittgenstein and in how Wittgensteinian insights can help understand pressing issues in social and political epistemology. She has been working extensively also on American pragmatism, particularly on Charles S. Peirce and William James. Among her publications, the monograph Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James (Palgrave, 2016). Her next book, under contract with Cambridge university Press, will be on Wittgenstein’s notion of forms of life.
Annalisa Coliva, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
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Annalisa Coliva is Chancellor Fellow, Professor and Chair in the Philosophy of Department at UC Irvine. She has written extensively on G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein, hinge epistemology, skepticism and relativism, as well as on the self and self-knowledge. Her current interests include the extension of hinge epistemology to topics in social and applied epistemology, Wittgenstein’s morphological method and conception of philosophy, and the philosophy of Friedrich Waismann and Susan Stebbing. Her works include the volumes Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015), The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016), Relativism (2020, with Maria Baghramian), and Skepticism (2021, forthcoming, with Duncan Pritchard).
Sandra Harvey, UC Irvine, Dep. of African American Studies
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Sandra Harvey is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She researches the production of race and gender through surveillance technologies originating in colonialism and chattel slavery. Her first book project, “Passing for Free, Passing for Sovereign” argues that our modern ethics of knowing depend on the logics of anti-black race/gender passing which she traces within the institutions of science, settler colonial law, conceptual art, and Enlightenment philosophy.
Nigel Hatton, UC Merced, Dep. of English and Philosophy
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Nigel Hatton is an associate professor of literature and philosophy at the University of California, Merced, and a lecturer in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University. His published work includes articles on the intersections of human rights and literature, and the moral thinking of Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Ivan Klíma, and others. “Sculpting a Human Being: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, and the Police in Denmark,” was recently published in The James Baldwin Review and “Post-Homeric Odysseys: Reimagining the Fictional Space Between Human Rights Advocates and the Poor, Dehumanized and Uprooted” appeared in a special edition of Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterrich. He is a co-editor of the Critical Refugee Studies Book Series (University of California Press), a consulting managing editor of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and an editorial board member of the Moravian Journal of Literature and Film. A former senior guest researcher at the Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, his current work and book projects focus on Kierkegaard, existentialism, and trans-Atlantic slavery.
Terence Keel, UCLA, Dep. of African American Studies
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Terence Keel is an Associate Professor with a split appointment in the Department of African American Studies, and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. He is also the Founding Director of the Lab for Biocritical Studies and currently serves as Associate Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Keel has written extensively about race, religion, law, and modern science. His widely acclaimed first book, Divine Variations explains how religion helped produce scientific racism. Keel argues that modern biology has undergone an uneven process of secularization, leaving contemporary scientific theories of race haunted by a religious past that cannot be fully transcended.
Keel is currently writing a second book on the American medical examiner system that details how forensic pathology, law enforcement, and autopsy science suffer from a climate of social and ethical nihilism that produce practices of state violence and biomedical racism that target communities of color and erase police accountability for death while under custody. Keel is also currently a co-editor of the forthcoming book Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, with Myrna Perez-Sheldon and Ahmed Ragab. Keel has a B.A. in Theology from Xavier University of Louisiana, a M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy for his collaborative work on the American medical examiner system.
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Hertfordshire, UK, Dep. of Philosophy
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Danièle Moyal-Sharrock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and Founding President of the British Wittgenstein Society. Her publications include Understanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty; The Third Wittgenstein; Perspicuous Presentations; Hinge Epistemology (with A. Coliva); F. R. Leavis: critic, teacher, philosopher; and most recently Certainty in Action: Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology (Bloomsbury, 2021). She is currently working on a book with Constantine Sandis, provisionally entitled Born Trans: Gender Inside Out.
Constantine Sandis, Hertfordshire, UK, Dep. of Philosophy
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Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His books include The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2012), Character and Causation: Hume’s Philosophy of Action (2018), and ten edited volumes, the most recent of which is Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe (2019). His selected essays are being published as From Action to Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility (Bloomsbury) and in French translation as Raisons et responsabilité: Essais de philosophie de l’action (Ithaque). Constantine is currently working on a book with Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, provisionally entitled Born Trans: Gender Inside Out.
Kate Ritchie, UC Irvine, Dep. Of Philosophy
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Katherine Ritchie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research lies at the intersection of inquiry on language and the social world. In particular she is interested in the nature of social groups (teams, committees, races, genders), the semantics of terms that pick out social groups (plurals, collective nouns, slurs, generics), and the interface between semantics and ontology. One central thread in her current research is to show how metaphysics and insights about our mental and linguistic representational devices can help inform viable social-political projects. Ritchie’s work has been published in edited volumes, handbooks, and journals including Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Mind & Language, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophers’ Imprint, and Thought, among others.
Erica Preston-Roedder, Occidental College, LA
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Erica Preston-Roedder is a professor at Occidental College. She received her PhD in Philosophy from NYU, and also holds a Masters in Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. She specializes in applied ethics, philosophy of race/gender, and public-oriented philosophy. She has written on topics such as grief, implicit bias, breastfeeding advocacy, mass shootings, and others. Her current research focuses on the normative complexity of multiracial lives and multiracial families. In recent work with Occidental College, she has focused on building connections with local community organizations, including local elementary schools and health advocacy organizations.
Naomi Scheman, U of Minnesota, Dep. of Philosophy and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
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Naomi Scheman is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the earliest feminist philosophers to engage with Wittgenstein, and she co-edited, with Peg O’Connor, Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein (Penn State Press, 2002). Her papers in feminist epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind have been collected in Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege (Routledge, 1993) and Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness (Oxford, 2011). She is especially interested in the politics of knowledge and of intelligibility, focusing on diverse challenges to Euromodern subjectivity, which she explores through engaging with topics such as queer and trans theory, Jewish identity, the role of trustworthiness in science, vulnerability as an epistemic standpoint, and relational ontology.