Dr. Paul Taylor, the W. Alton Jones professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will present “From Ferguson to Trump: Innocence, Events and Ethical Life” on Thursday, March 12 at 4:00 p.m. in OM 223.
Dr. Taylor will argue that the Ferguson moment remains important as a touchstone for contemporary ethical life, even in the age of Trump. He will discuss what it means to engage responsibly with that moment and examine the forces that enabled the rise of Trumpism. Among these forces are novel deployments of racial innocence and political temporality, both of which demand the sort of broadly philosophical reflection that this presentation will attempt.
This event sponsored by the Department of Philosophy & The Rev. Vincent J. Cooke, S.J., Endowed Fund. The presentation is free and open to faculty and students. For more information please contact Dr. Philip Reed at reedp@canisius.edu.
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Submitted by: Philip Reed, PhD, chair, Department of Philosophy
