This workshop will consider the concept of evaluative perception as it pertains to bodies. Evaluative perception holds that our perceptions are always value-laden rather than value-neutral\; value is thus constitutive for perception rather than what subsequently affixes to it. This poses a substantial challenge for ethics with respect to bodies. An orthodoxy of ethics has been that bodies are irrelevant to the evaluation of actions\; the appearance and features of a body&mdash\;those indicative of gender\, race\, age\, etc.&mdash\;are said not to bear on judgments about the value of what that body does. This principle requires that one \;see through \;that body\, as if invisible\, to achieve a properly qualitative assessment of its actions. The workshop will discuss two pieces that reconsider this doctrine\, proposing instead that the seeing of any action&mdash\;of »\;what is happening«\;&mdash\;is a seeing mediated through bodies and the values associated with its features.
\nJ. Reid Miller \;is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. He is the author of \;Stain Removal: Ethics and Race \;(Oxford UP\, 2016) as well as essays on ethics\, language\, cinema\, and race in publications such as \;Diacritics\, \;Critical Inquiry \;and \;Philosophy and Social Criticism. \;As part of his current project exploring the logic of inheritance he \;co-produced and co-wrote the award-winning documentary film \;80 Years Later \;(2022) on Japanese American racial inheritance and published the symposium piece »\;What Would a Philosophy of Inheritance Look Like?«\; in the \;Journal of World Philosophies \;(2023). He has been Associate Editor at the journal \;GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies \;since 2021 and has held Visiting Scholar positions at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.
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