African American Philosophy

June 6+ 9, 6-8pm ET Damion Scott This course will engage a number of central concepts, themes, and figures within the distinctive and flourishing field of African-American Philosophy. African-American Philosophy as a subfield of a broader Africana Philosophical tradition has particular concerns with issues such as self-determination and self-knowledge, oppression, freedom, liberation, violence, ethnic or racial identity, the nature of persons, social ontology, justice, Afrofuturism, Afro-Pessimism and the critical theory of race. As such, we will focus on several key themes in African-American philosophy under three headings: the semantic-ontological, the ethico-political and the aesthetic. As with any type of philosophical thinking and debate, African-American philosophy may make claims of a general, universal scope. Participants will develop an appreciation of the unique philosophical voices in the Black and Africana intellectual tradition. The course will further focus on contempora