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Helping you include authors from under-represented groups in your teaching

What is the Point of Equality?

Posted on May 7, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Introduction: If much recent academic work defending equality had been secretly penned by conservatives, could the results be any more embarrassing for egalitarians? Consider how much of this work leaves…

Posted in Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged capability approach, democratic equality, distributive justice, equality, luck egalitarianismLeave a comment

Fair Educational Opportunity and the Distribution of Natural Ability: Toward a Prioritarian Principle of Educational Justice

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…to confer a general benefit, where that benefit need not be mediated by improved academic outcomes. I go on to argue that it should employ a metric of all-things-considered flourishing…

Posted in Distributive Justice, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Social Science, Science Logic & Mathematics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged distribution of educational resources, education, prioritarianismLeave a comment

Just Business: Business Ethics in Action

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…academic philosopher, an international investment banker, and head of successful businesses. She is now Principal of a London-headquartered consultancy firm, and Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds….

Posted in Applied Ethics, Business Ethics, Value TheoryTagged business ethicsLeave a comment

Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…out some African elements, perspective or concern. The African narrative style predominates through these essays but their framing conforms, more or less, to the Western paradigm for presenting academic issues….

Posted in African Philosophy: Ethics, African/Africana Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Philosophical Traditions, Value TheoryTagged African philosophy, bioethics, cutlure, raceLeave a comment

Artistic Freedom and Moral Rights in Contemporary Art: The Mass MoCA Controversy

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Introduction: The concept of artistic freedom, like that of academic freedom, is as potent as it is slippery. Its indeterminacy may in fact lend the concept some power, since it…

Posted in Aesthetics, Art and Artworks, Value TheoryTagged aesthetics, artistic freedomLeave a comment

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…not merely on moral and ethical grounds, or because it is elitist, but on purely intellectual ones. In revealing the failure of much academic art history, and a great deal…

Posted in Feminist Aesthetics, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged art history, artist, sexismLeave a comment

Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?

Posted on December 7, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…importance to the future of many academic disciplines. Her book will amply reward readers looking to achieve a more fruitful understanding of the relations between feminism, science, and social life….

Posted in Feminist Philosophy of Science, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Science and Values, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged Masculine Bias, Scientific KnowledgeLeave a comment

Rationality and the Structure of the Self: Reply to Guyer and Bradley

Posted on March 31, 2022July 2, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…specialization – Kant scholarship and decision theory – are the very first to appear from any quarter within academic philosophy. My gratitude to Paul Guyer and Richard Bradley for the…

Posted in 18th/19th Century Philosophy, Classical Logic, Decision Theory, History of Western Philosophy, Kant: Ethics, Metaethics, Rationality, The SelfTagged Paul Guyer, Richard BradleyLeave a comment

Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?

Posted on January 22, 2022June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural,…

Posted in Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of the Americas, Rights of Future GenerationsTagged cultural sovereignty, cultural stewardship, equality, future generations, religious freedom, removal, responsibility, self-determinationLeave a comment

What is a Conspiracy Theory?

Posted on March 31, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

In much of the current academic and public discussion, conspiracy theories are portrayed as a negative phenomenon, linked to misinformation, mistrust in experts and institutions, and political propaganda. Rather surprisingly,…

Posted in Conceptual Engineering, Conspiracy Theories, Experimental PhilosophyTagged conspiratorial explanation, descriptive concept of conspiracy theory, epistemic deficiency, epistemic evaluation, evaluative concept of conspiracy theoryLeave a comment

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