Department News
Illinois State University Philosophy Professor Dr. Cassie Herbert was recently a guest on the NPR podcast Invisibilia on the episode Friends with Benefits. [Read the rest]
Dr. Alison Bailey was recently interviewed about her newly published book, The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance (2021). Her interview appears on the Examining Ethics podcast produced by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. In her book she invites the reader to “wade slowly and mindfully into the weight of whiteness, and to attend to the ways white supremacy has misshapen our nation, our communities, and our humanity.” The episode featuring her interview can be found here: https://examiningethics.org/2021/11/the-weight-of-whiteness-with-alison-bailey/. Bailey is a Professor of Philosophy at Illinois State University where she directs the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. [Read the rest]
The Department of Philosophy at Illinois State University invites submissions for our annual essay award for the best essay on any philosophical topic by an Illinois State philosophy major. [Read the rest]
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University will present "Subjective Security" on Thursday, November 11 at 5 p.m. He will be presenting over Zoom. Some people have chosen to attend the presentation together in Stevenson Hall 121. Others are welcome to join. If you would like to attend via Zoom, the Meeting ID is 987 6817 6720. [Read the rest]
Illinois State University’s African American studies program had planned to host “Black Women Rising from the Classroom to the Boardroom” on November 15 in the Rosa Parks Room of Watterson Towers. The event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for early 2022. [Read the rest]
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