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April 20, 2021

Alejandro Vallega publishes new book

Time and release

Exordium to liberatory, experiential and decolonial thoughts

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo 2021

When we start to think from affectivity, emotions, from the physical, and from memorial and involuntary aspects, from traumas, absences and disappearances, with silences, exclusions, exiles … we face a radically new, dynamic horizon of knowledge and transformer. New paths open to us for liberatory and decolonial thoughts, paths for knowledge and knowledge, many unacceptable when not unthinkable until today, and yet they are already with us. A book to start thinking from and with the specific and different situations in which we find ourselves, with and from hybrid and multi-universal knowledge.

An essay that explains in a philosophical way how the thought generated in Latin America (Francisco Antonio Zea, José Martí, Mayz Vallenilla and the native peoples, among others) and the concrete experience of this place offer us a valuable way of living, thinking and positioning ourselves in the world: one in which reason does not prevail over intuition and sensory perceptions, and therefore in which emotions stand out as a form of knowledge, and where history is not a past event but is present on the daily horizon of life.

A text that provides a decolonial key: the memory of the past, almost involuntarily assumed in the present and used with a view to the future (that is, time), all of this as a modality of dynamic and necessary consciousness in the search for liberation.

 

August 26, 2020

Beata Stawarska publishes on Fanon and Beauvoir’s views of violence with Wits UP

Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon
Ed. Ph. Van Haute, U. Kistner

Hegel is most often mentioned – and not without good reason – as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the ‘decolonial turn’, Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if it were not for the much-quoted ‘lord-bondsman’ dialectic – frequently referred to as the ‘master-slave dialectic’ – described in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Fanon takes up this dialectic negatively in contexts of violence-riven (post-)slavery and colonialism; yet in works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth he upholds a Hegelian-inspired vision of freedom.

The essays in this collection offer close readings of Hegel’s text, and of responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions and transformations of Hegel in the work of Fanon, and more generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.

July 20, 2020

Colin Koopman publishes article with Public Books


Colin Koopman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pre-Law Advisor, Ethics Minor Director, and Director of New Media & Culture Certificate Program, has published an article with Public Books “How to Hear Campus Free Speech” which asks if a pragmatic approach to free speech on campus can produce more inclusive institutions.

June 16, 2020

Anti-racism statement

Black Lives Matter! The philosophy department at the University of Oregon categorically rejects racism, white supremacy, and police brutality.

The philosophy department at the University of Oregon stand in solidarity with our Black brothers, sisters, and non-binary siblings against anti-Black racism in all forms. As a community of scholars who are committed to studying race and other voices in the margins as part of our core curriculum, we know that this violence is not new. The United States is built upon stolen and looted Indigenous land under the justification of manifest destiny and settler-colonialism. Furthermore, the infrastructure of this country was built with the stolen and enslaved labor of Black bodies. Racism is the legacy of this country that is still be carried out to this day. Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Justin Howell are just some of the more recent victims in the history of a system that was designed to uphold white supremacy.

Furthermore, as philosophers we recognize the role that some philosophy has had in a justification for past actions in this country. But we also recognize the incredible role the philosopher can play in a revolution. People like Franz Fanon, bell Hooks, Cornel West, Angela Davis and various other Black scholars have showed us through their words and through their actions the vital importance of standing in solidarity with Black voices speaking and working against racism on departmental to global scales. Black philosophers continue to do the work of their own liberation while dealing with blatant racism, discrimination, and crushing micro-aggressions. In this department, we are committed to protecting and celebrating our Black professors, graduate students, undergraduate and staff. The work before us require herculean effort; however, racial justice can only be achieved by understanding the breadth and depth of white supremacy and working together to radically shift the balance of power. We cannot ever be complacent. We must fight racism in all its form. We must not be afraid to challenge and resist the status quo imposed by white supremacy. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

April 29, 2020

Beata Stawarska publishes a new book with Palgrave Macmillan

Beata Stawarska, Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology, Palgrave Macmillan (2020)

This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916) today. It critically assesses the relation between materials from the Course and from the linguist’s Nachlass (works unpublished or even unknown at Saussure’s death, some of them recently discovered). This book pays close attention to the set of oppositional pairings: the signifier and the signified, la langue (language system) and la parole (speech), and synchrony and diachrony, that became the hallmark of structuralism across the humanities. Sometimes referred to as the “Saussurean doctrine,” this hierarchical conceptual apparatus becomes revised in favor of a horizontal set of relations, which co-involves speaking subjects and linguistic structures. This book documents the continued relevance of Saussure’s linguistics in the 21st Century, and it sheds light on its legacy within structuralism and phenomenology. The reader can consult the book on its own, or in tandem with the 1916 Course.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43097-9#toc

January 24, 2020

Ramón Alvarado on UO Today

Ramón Alvarado, assistant professor of Philosophy and an affiliate of UO’s Data Science Initiative, discusses his work in data ethics. He defines the concepts of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; and talks about the bias of algorithms and the emergence of surveillance capitalism.

January 15, 2020

Amie Zimmer published in APA Blog series


Amie Leigh Zimmer (UO Philosophy Doctoral Candidate) has published in the APA Blog’s series on Women in Philosophy:

https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/01/15/fashion-and-philosophy/?fbclid=IwAR20-GVWWUXq4F6aOm2-VED5imOEpHqny6mZBp3bNbr2bRap2a7qClcbEeg

August 12, 2019

Nicolae Morar on Jefferson Exchange Public Radio


Nicolae Morar, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies & Philosophy and Associate Member in the Institute for Ecology and Evolution, was recently interviewed on Jefferson Exchange Public Radio about “How We Talk About The Microbiome.”

A link to the interview is available at:
https://www.ijpr.org/post/curious-how-we-talk-about-microbiome

July 24, 2019

Camisha Russell on UO Today

Camisha Russell, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, discusses her book The Assisted Reproduction of Race, which examines how concepts of race are reinforced by reproductive technologies on UO Today. Russell talks about how race is a social construct and asks, “what does the idea of race do?” and posits that race is a technology (something made and used).

April 24, 2019

Philosophy in the News

Colin Koopman (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pre-Law Advisor, Ethics Minor Director, and Director of New Media & Culture Certificate) and Nicolae Morar (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies) spoke with AroundtheO for a recent article “UO researchers look to future of neuroscience and data collection”

You can read the article here:
https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-researchers-look-future-neuroscience-and-data-collection?utm_source=ato04-23-19&utm_campaign=workplace

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