My previous posts addressed racism in university contexts. Just several days after I published the latest one, I was informed that a lecturer in my philosophy department used racist language in his seminar, without any critical discussion and even though several students asked him to stop. In response, he began a long monologue trying to […]

In my last post, I proposed that lecturers warn their students if they might encounter racist language in the assigned readings. In this post I want to explain what I mean by that. Yesterday, I attended a panel on anti-discriminatory university environments. Discussing our experiences, I recalled how reading a racial slur in Hume’s Enquiries […]

(This is a follow-up post to this one) Imagine a class on e.g. Kant or Hume, maybe an introductory class, maybe an advanced course. It is the beginning the term and the end of the first meeting: […] Now that I’ve told you about the general direction of this course, I want to take a […]

I am currently taking seminars on Hegel, Kant and Hume. Yes, that racist Hegel, that racist Kant and that racist Hume. Of course, in no seminar was their racism mentioned. I only had to wait until the second meeting on Kant & Hume before I encountered the first racial slur. There was one brave White […]

Why would a person ascribe to themselves a belief that they do not endorse? I was confused by the ease with which some philosophers talked about the phenomenon of alienation. It was as if the existence of an unendorsed belief within a subject was not at all problematic, leading to no conflict whatsoever. But at […]

I am a selfish philosopher. I take philosophy to always be for and about me. Back then when I decided to do my undergrad in philosophy, I wanted to understand what was going on in my life. I sought for general term tu understand my concrete situation. At that time a plurality of factors came […]

This speech was held at the Black Lives Matter Demonstration in Halle, at the 13.06.20. Germany has a massive problem with racism and things have been getting worse. This country is blind: Many Germans don’t see racism and where they do, they don’t see that/how they are involved in it. Consequentially, they don’t see the […]