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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Philosophy of Race"”.
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Theorizing Racial Democracy
<p>The critical philosophy of race has shown recent growth, but it tends to focus too much on the United States. This leaves many race-related concepts and phenomena from other parts of the world underexplored. I help to fill this gap by exploring the idea of "racial democracy" in Brazil, which is …
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Racism and conceptual analysis: A defense of the Wittgensteinian approach
… Ludwig Wittgenstein’s grammatical approach to philosophy in the context of contemporary theories of racism. Grammatical analysis does not aim at theory-construction, but at conceptual clarity that is free from conceptual confusion. My aim is to dissolve conceptual confusion in contemporary …
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Establishing an immanent counterhumanism for the un-foreclosure of the future: Deleuze, Mbembe, Hartman and the anarchic Open World
This dissertation addresses the political form of the human, its multiply-stratified nature, and the world it makes up - by focusing first on a tension between two broad kinds of approaches in philosophy of race that intend to unmake that stratification. One, called counterhumanism and exemplified …
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Techno-Racism: Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race
… Society. In some ways it even makes a great deal of sense to think about racism as a tool of political power. My dissertation explores the way in which racism is informed by the underlying social structure of whiteness, and the way that modern technology is informed by the underlying structure of …
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
… methodological, epistemic, or ethical issues of personalising medicine that influence our ability to reliably predict, diagnose, and treat disease for individual patients. I argue that PM in its current form is insufficient in several ways. My dissertation contributes to the literature by …