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Philosophy > Dunbar Lectures

Dunbar Lectures

Department of Philosophy

2013 Lecture
March 18, 2013

The Costs of Unintentional Racial Bias
Dr. Tamar Gendler, Philosophy Dept., Yale University

Using empirical studies from moral psychology, Gendler examines the unacknowledged evaluations human brains make about people from other racial backgrounds. She considers the costs of these assessments, which happen almost automatically and which often disagree with what one consciously believes. 

Any questions? Feel free to direct them to goldekb@millsaps.edu.

2012
John Bickle (Mississippi State U.), "How to Super-Charge a Brain: Manipulating Brain Genes and Proteins to Enhance Memory - What It Means and Where It's Going"

2011
Karsten Harries (Yale U.), "Zips and Slashes: Should Moral Considerations Figure in Judging Art?"

2010
George R. Lucas, Jr. (U. S. Naval Academy), "New Rules for New Wars: Military Ethics and Irregular Warfare"

2009
Pheng Cheah (U. of California-Berkeley), "Necessary Strangers: Law's Hospitality in the Age of Global Migration"

2008
Michael Ruse (Florida State U.), "Can Evolution Explain Morality? Or Is It Dog Eat Dog All the Way Down?"

2007
James P. Sterba (U. of Notre Dame), "Why Everyone Should Agree that Economic Inequality is Unjustifiable"

2006
Lucius Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt U.), "Education, Academic Philosophy, and the Strategic Production of Ignorance"

2005
Eleonore Stump (St. Louis U.), "The Problem of Suffering: Samson and Self-Destroying Evil"

2004
Paul Churchland (U. of California-San Diego), "Impossible Colors: How Objective Brain Science Really Can Explain Subjective Human Experience"

2002
Robert Bernasconi (U. of Memphis), "When Race Was Everything: A Philosopher Looks at 19th Century Anthropology"

2000
Martha Nussbaum (U. of Chicago), "Secret Sewers of Vice: Disgust, Bodies, and the Law"

1998
Robert C. Solomon (U. of Texas-Austin), "Nietzsche and the Passionate Life"

1996
Hilde Hein (College of the Holy Cross), "The Absent Mind: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic"

1995
Tom Regan (North Carolina State U.), "Patterns of Resistance: The Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America"

1994
Charles Scott (Pennsylvania State U.), "What Paris is Doing to Us"

1993
Ralph A. Smith (U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), "Once More: The Traditional Humanistic Ideal of Education"

1992
Richard T. DeGeorge (Kansas U.), "Modern Science, Environmental Ethics, and the Anthropocentric Predicament"

1991
Hilary Putnam (Harvard U.), "Ultimate Questions"

1990
Alison Jaggar (U. of Cincinnati), "How Can Ethics Be Feminist?"

1989
John E. Smith (Yale U.), "Recovering the Value Dimension in Education"

1988
Robert E. Bergmark (Millsaps College), "Knowledge, Belief, and Commitment" in four installments:
"What Can We Know?" "What May We Reasonably Believe?" "How Ought We Reasonably to Live?" "What May We Reasonably Hope?"

The Dunbar Lectures

Instituted by Jack F. and Wylene Dunbar in honor of Robert E. Bergmark, beloved Millsaps  philosophy professor, colleague, scholar, and civil rights advocate.