Kevin J Harrelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 773944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin J Harrelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrelson |
| SIGNATURE | HARRELSON K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0228-4014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert H. Terrell and the Sources of Black Conservatism
Black conservatism is often deemed a counterintuitive philosophy because it requires confidence in institutions and traditions that have not benefited Black people. In its classic moment within the American context, the movement centered on a combination of American exceptionalism and specific ideas about racial progress. This article traces some of the academic sources of one formulation of Black conservatism from the age of Booker T. Washington…
Critical Philosophy of Race
Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays collects fifteen wide-ranging contributions by Robert Bernasconi on topics in the philosophy of race and the intellectual history of racial ideologies. Each chapter bears the distinctive traits of its author, displaying the historical depth and contextual subtlety of a scholar who possesses a remarkable facility with texts on these subjects. His basic procedure is to forage through understudied and often rare p…
Racial Fraud and the American Binary
In response to recent controversies about racial transitioning, I provide an argument that deceptions about ancestry may sometimes constitute fraud. In order to arrive at this conclusion, I criticize the arguments from analogy made famous by Rebecca Tuvel and Christine Overall. My claim is that we should not think of racial transitioning as similar to gender transitioning, because different identity groups possess different kinds of obstacles to …
White Racial Literacy and Racial Dexterity
This essay presents racial literacy and racial dexterity as educational desiderata, especially for white students. Racial literacy is defined as the ability to recognize and interpret racial nuances in real social engagements. Racial dexterity is defined as the ability to engage successfully with diverse racial contexts. After defining racial literacy and racial dexterity, Kevin Harrelson analyzes these skills by contrasting them with racial naiv…
Intention and empathy
This essay challenges some assumptions of prevalent theories of empathy. The empathizer, according to these theories, must have an emotion or a representation that matches the recipient’s emotion or representation. I argue that these conditions fail to account for important cases, namely surrogate and out-group empathy. In the course of this argument, I isolate some conceptual difficulties in extant models of cognitive empathy. In place of the ma…
Hegel in the Americas
This essay criticizes some strategies of Hegel scholarship, especially the non-metaphysical school and its recent metaphysical successor. My main claim is that these approaches are rhetorically opaque, and thus vulnerable to a certain anticolonial argument. In place of these strategies, I recommend and illustrate a more historically perspicuous approach that is sensitive to concerns about the role of European philosophy in the Americas.
Critical Philosophy of Race
Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays collects fifteen wide-ranging contributions by Robert Bernasconi on topics in the philosophy of race and the intellectual history of racial ideologies. Each chapter bears the distinctive traits of its author, displaying the historical depth and contextual subtlety of a scholar who possesses a remarkable facility with texts on these subjects. His basic procedure is to forage through understudied and often rare p…
Hegel in the Americas
This essay criticizes some strategies of Hegel scholarship, especially the non-metaphysical school and its recent metaphysical successor. My main claim is that these approaches are rhetorically opaque, and thus vulnerable to a certain anticolonial argument. In place of these strategies, I recommend and illustrate a more historically perspicuous approach that is sensitive to concerns about the role of European philosophy in the Americas.
Intention and empathy
This essay challenges some assumptions of prevalent theories of empathy. The empathizer, according to these theories, must have an emotion or a representation that matches the recipient’s emotion or representation. I argue that these conditions fail to account for important cases, namely surrogate and out-group empathy. In the course of this argument, I isolate some conceptual difficulties in extant models of cognitive empathy. In place of the ma…
White Racial Literacy and Racial Dexterity
This essay presents racial literacy and racial dexterity as educational desiderata, especially for white students. Racial literacy is defined as the ability to recognize and interpret racial nuances in real social engagements. Racial dexterity is defined as the ability to engage successfully with diverse racial contexts. After defining racial literacy and racial dexterity, Kevin Harrelson analyzes these skills by contrasting them with racial naiv…
Racial Fraud and the American Binary
In response to recent controversies about racial transitioning, I provide an argument that deceptions about ancestry may sometimes constitute fraud. In order to arrive at this conclusion, I criticize the arguments from analogy made famous by Rebecca Tuvel and Christine Overall. My claim is that we should not think of racial transitioning as similar to gender transitioning, because different identity groups possess different kinds of obstacles to …
Critical Philosophy of Race
Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays collects fifteen wide-ranging contributions by Robert Bernasconi on topics in the philosophy of race and the intellectual history of racial ideologies. Each chapter bears the distinctive traits of its author, displaying the historical depth and contextual subtlety of a scholar who possesses a remarkable facility with texts on these subjects. His basic procedure is to forage through understudied and often rare p…
Robert H. Terrell and the Sources of Black Conservatism
Black conservatism is often deemed a counterintuitive philosophy because it requires confidence in institutions and traditions that have not benefited Black people. In its classic moment within the American context, the movement centered on a combination of American exceptionalism and specific ideas about racial progress. This article traces some of the academic sources of one formulation of Black conservatism from the age of Booker T. Washington…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (1 works)