Call for Abstracts: Eastern APA

The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) is seeking proposals for a panel on:

Systemic Racism, Police Brutality, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

for its group session at the Eastern APA, held on January 6, 2021 at 2PM in New York City.

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.

Individual abstracts of 300-400 words should be sent to the panel organizers, Jennifer Bulcock jb3666@cabrini.edu and Erik Anderson erik.anderson@furman.edu, by September 15, 2020. (Please email us with any questions.) Topics may include, but are not limited to:

What is systemic racism, and how do we address it?
Black Lives Matter and philosophy
Racial inequalities and health disparities
Racism and/in health care
What do “essential workers” deserve?
Race and the epistemology of ignorance
Racial justice: within or beyond liberalism?
Civil disobedience, political violence, and the ethics of protest
Are reparations the answer?
Racism, policing, and the criminal justice system
Rethinking/defunding policing
Policing and implicit bias
Covering the protests: rhetoric, truth, and social media
White privilege and moral duties
What values should undergird our criminal justice system?
Do police officers have a duty to act when other officers abuse their position?
What is “reasonable” force?
Do police officers have too much discretion?
The virtues of community policing
What is systemic violence and/or how does it affect communities of color?
Racial profiling and epistemic injustices
Criminalization of race
The politics of historical monuments