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SUMMARY:What is Race?
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DESCRIPTION:<p>SERIES DESCRIPTION</p>\n<p>In the past year and a half\, race and racism have been at the forefront of many people&rsquo\;s minds because of widespread Black Lives Matter protests and the disproportionately negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on certain racialized communities. But the underlying phenomenon is not only recent. For centuries\, racialized communities across North America have faced social and environmental injustices.</p>\n<p>Each year\, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy at Western University organize a public lecture series in partnership with the London Public Library. The theme for this year&rsquo\;s lecture series is race &amp\; racism.</p>\n<p>Oct 7 - Quayshawn Spencer: What is Race?<br> Oct 14 - Meena Krishnamurthy: When Racial Passing Becomes Racial Fraud<br> Oct 21 - Carolyn McLeod\, Kharissa Edwards &amp\; Sin&eacute\;ad Osivwemu: Race\, Distrust\, and Vaccine Hesitancy<br> Oct 28 - Deborah McGregor: Indigenous Climate Justice\, Nature Based Solutions and Self-Determined Futures</p>\n<p>Join us online each Thursday in October from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Visit our website to view talk abstracts and speaker profiles\, and to register.</p>\n\n<p>TALK ABSTRACT (OCT 7)</p>\n<p>Recent work among philosophers of race has been aimed at discovering the nature and reality of race among competent English speakers in the USA. However\, nowhere near a consensus has been reached. In this talk\, I defend an argument that provides a radical solution to this race problem.</p>\n\n<p>SPEAKER PROFILE</p>\n\n<p>Quayshawn&nbsp\;Spencer&nbsp\;is the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. &nbsp\;He has published&nbsp\;several journal articles and a book\, all of which have been on metaphysical issues at the intersection of philosophy of race and philosophy of&nbsp\;science. &nbsp\;His most cited article is\, &ldquo\;A Radical Solution to the Race Problem&rdquo\; in a 2014 issue of&nbsp\;Philosophy of Science. &nbsp\;Spencer earned his Ph.D.&nbsp\;in philosophy at Stanford University in 2009\, and also holds an M.S. in biology from Stanford and a B.A. in chemistry from Cornell University.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Spencer has won two Ford Foundation Fellowships\, a National Science Foundation Grant (Award #:&nbsp\;1331110)\, and two Fleishhacker Foundation Grants to support his research.&nbsp\; Spencer has also given over 80 academic talks on the topic of race &amp\; biology\, including many talks for professional biologists.&nbsp\; Spencer is also an Associate Editor for&nbsp\;<em>Biology &amp\; Philosophy&nbsp\;</em>and&nbsp\;<em>Philosophical Studies\,&nbsp\;</em>and on the editorial boards of&nbsp\;<em>Critical Philosophy of Race&nbsp\;</em>and&nbsp\;<em>Ergo.&nbsp\;</em>&nbsp\;Spencer has one published book\,&nbsp\;<em>What is Race? Four Philosophical Views&nbsp\;</em>(with Sally Haslanger\, Chike Jeffers\, &amp\; Joshua Glasgow\, OUP 2019)\, and one forthcoming book\,&nbsp\;<em>The Race Debates from Metaphysics to Medicine&nbsp\;</em>(OUP).</p>
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