The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives

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Brandon Hogan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Howard University. His work has appeared in Contemporary Pragmatism The Journal of Pan African Studies and the Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy. He earned a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Robert Brandom and a JD from Harvard Law School. Michael Cholbi is Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview 2011) Understanding Kant's Ethics (Cambridge University Press 2016) and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press expected 2021). He is the editor of several scholarly collections including Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Rowman and Littlefield 2015); Procreation Parenthood and Educational Rights (Routledge 2017); and The Future of Work Technology and Basic Income (Routledge 2019). He is the the co-editor of the textbook Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge forthcoming 2020). In recent years he has been an academic visitor at Australian National University the University of Turku (Finland) and the Hastings Center. He is the founder of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying. Alex Madva is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy at Cal Poly Pomona. He co-edited An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge Justice and the Social Mind (Routledge 2020) and his work has appeared in journals including Noûs Ethics The Journal of Applied Philosophy Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Ergo Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Cognitive Science and the International Journal of STEM Education. He has run numerous workshops and training sessions on bias stereotype threat and impostor syndrome for schools courts and wider audiences. Benjamin S. Yost is Professor of Philosophy Adjunct at Cornell University. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. His book Against Capital Punishment was published with Oxford University Press in 2019. Other published work appears in journals such as Utilitas Journal of the American Philosophical Association Kantian Review and Continental Philosophy Review.