03/29/2024
By John Kaag
About the Talk
European settlement in North American is commonly deemed “settler colonialism.” This practice focuses on conquest, settlement and removal of Indigenous people. While responses typically stress critical thinking, they're constrained by colonial logic. This talk will examine the problem, summarize key elements of the inherited system and suggest an alternative grounded in a decolonizing moral perspective.
About the Guest Speaker
Scott L. Pratt, Ph.D., is a professor and head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon. His research and teaching interests are in American philosophy, philosophy of education, and the history of logic. Pratt is the author of “Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy” and “Logic: Inquiry, Argument and Order,” as well as numerous articles on pluralism, logic and Indigenous American philosophy. He is currently working on two books entitled “Posthuman Empiricism: Agency, Ethics, and Politics in Social Inquiry” and “Logic, Colonization, and Indigenous Philosophy.”
Tuesday, April 2
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Coburn Hall, Room 255, South Campus
Free and open to the public
This event is funded by the Donahue Endowed Professorship in the Arts and is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
Learn more about the series at uml.edu/donahue-speaker-series.