[SydPhil] Macquarie work in progress seminar, Tuesday at 1 PM

[Mark Alfano]

Dear colleagues,

I hope you're well.

This is your regular reminder that on Tuesday at 1 PM we will have our
work-in-progress seminar. Here are the details for this week:

*26 August*
*Adam Hochman <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/CqIOCmO5gluWx17OJuGf5sRumhG?domain=researchers.mq.edu.au>**
(Macquarie
University)*
*Is “Race” Change Possible?*
This talk explores the metaphysical possibility of “transraciality.” Most
philosophers working on this topic have adopted a social form of what
Charles Mills calls objectivism about race. They have argued that
transraciality is currently impossible on this basis. I argue that—as Mills
himself maintained—social objectivism actually allows for “transraciality,”
but that objectivists will be unable to determine the true “race” of many
individuals. I compare social objectivist approaches to “transraciality” to
the approach entailed by reconstructionist anti-realism about race. For
reconstructionists, transraciality is impossible. However, one can
racialize oneself differently at different points throughout one’s life,
and in different contexts, and some—intentionally or not—end up racialized
differently by others. I make the case that, when it comes to the topic of
“transraciality,” anti-realist reconstructionism is more explanatory from a
theoretical perspective and more desirable from an ethical perspective than
social objectivism about race.
Logistics and the full schedule are available here:
https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xtFCCnx1jnimEl18OuJh6sJL2mK?domain=mqphilosophy.github.io

Hope to see some of you there!

Best wishes,

Mark


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Mark Alfano
Philosophy, Macquarie University
25WW Building B, Level 1, Room B144
www.alfanophilosophy.com
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