Thursday, February 15, 7:00pm
College of Liberal Arts building, room 4310
Dr. Jorge Garcia, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, will deliver the 2018 Ian Moore Memorial Lecture. His talk is titled “Intention-Driven Moral Absolutism.” Dr. Garcia is the author of the forthcoming book, The Heart of Racism: Essays on Diversity, Race, and Relativism. He has written numerous articles and essays on a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied ethics over the past thirty years. He is an advisory board member for the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, a fellow with the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, past president of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy, and past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Dr. Garcia will discuss several types of racism at both the individual and social levels as well as some philosophical accounts of racism’s nature and immorality. He will then sketch and defend his own unified explanatory account of what constitutes racism and why it is immoral.
A reception follows the lecture.
For more information, contact Dr. Anne Ashbaugh in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at 410-704-2750 or aashbaugh@towson.edu.
