Lorraine L:
Since some of these references to Mills' work are right on my desk at the moment here they are:
Mills' earlier definition/discussion of "an epistemology of ignorance," (which he defines in terms of patterns of cognitive dysfunctions) is in *The Racial Contract* (Cornell, 1997). See esp. circa p. 18.
He develops his arguments further in his recent essay,"White Ignorance," in *Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance*, eds. Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (Suny Press, 2007).
Best,
Phyllis (Rooney)
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>Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:23:00 -0500
>From: LY Landry <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Conference Announcement Please Distribute
>To: [log in to unmask]
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> Hi Sarah:
>
> Might you have a recent reference for where Charles
> writes of this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Lorraine Landry
>
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> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:11 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Conference Announcement Please
> Distribute
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> I am also wondering if anyone will take up what
> Charles Mills has described as a particular
> pattern of localized and global cognitive
> dysfunctions (which are psychologically and
> socially functional), producing the ironic outcome
> that whites will in general be unable to
> understand the world they themselves have made. He
> actually proposes a new research program in
> cognitive science to take up questions of white
> moral cognitive dysfunction, genuine cognitive
> difficulty.
>
> Sarah Hoagland
>
> On 5/12/08 2:50 PM, "Marilyn Frye" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Eva,
>
> This looks like a very important conference. A
> good deal of what I understand to be the leading
> work on autonomy has seemed to me woefully
> neglectful of the great variety of cognitive and
> emotional experience across on only the
> conditions you cite here but also phenomena such
> as unconscious desire/fear/knowledge. I’m
> glad you’ve got this conference up.
>
> (Seems odd that only one of the keynoters is a
> woman. How’d that happen?)
>
> Marilyn
>
> On 5/12/08 2:16 PM, "Eva Kittay"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
>
> The Stony Brook University Department of
> Philosophy presents
> Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral
> Philosophy
> September 18 – 20, 2008 Stony Brook
> Manhattan 401 Park Avenue South (27th and 28th
> Street)
> Rethinking and revising traditional
> assumptions about personhood, autonomy,
> agency, justice, care, human relationships,
> classification, and moral responsibility...in
> light of Alzheimer’s, autism and ‘mental
> retardation.’
> Keynote Speakers: Michael Bérubé
> Pennsylvania State University; Ian Hacking
> Collège de France, University of Toronto;
> Martha Nussbaum University of Chicago; Peter
> Singer Princeton University; Jeff McMahan
> Rutgers University; Daniel Wikler Harvard
> University School of Public Health; Jonathan
> Wolff University College London
> Panelists: Douglas Biklen School of Education
> and Facilitated Communication Institute,
> Syracuse University; Jeffrey Brosco M.D.
> University of Miami and the Mailman Center for
> Child Development; Licia Carlson Harvard
> University; Leslie Francis University of Utah;
> James C. Harris, M.D. Johns Hopkins School of
> Medicine; Agnieszka Jaworska Stanford
> University; Bruce Jennings Yale University
> School of Medicine; Eva Kittay Stony Brook
> University/SUNY; Hilde Lindemann Michigan
> State University; Victoria McGeer Princeton
> University; James Nelson Michigan State
> University; Hans Reinders Vrije Unversiteit
> Amsterdam; Henry Richardson Georgetown
> University; Anita Silvers San Francisco State
> University; Cynthia Stark University of Utah;
> David Shoemaker Bowling Green State
> University; Anna Stubblefield Rutgers
> University, Newark; Sophia Wong Long Island
> University
>
> For additional information see
> www.stonybrook.edu/cdconference
> <http://www.stonybrook.edu/cdconference>
> For questions contact [log in to unmask]
>
> Co-sponsored by The Center for Discovery, New
> York University Bioethics Center, and
> Metaphilosophy (Wiley-Blackwell), the Office
> of the Provost at Stony Brook University/SUNY.
> Additional co-sponsors include The College of
> Arts and Sciences, and the Humanities
> Institute at Stony Brook University/SUNY;
> Department of Philosophy at Southern
> Connecticut State University; Stony Brook
> University’s Templeton Research Lecture
> Series.
>
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Phyllis Rooney ([log in to unmask])
Philosophy Dept.
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309
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