{"id":684,"date":"2021-10-06T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/philosophy\/antiracism-statement\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:25:28","slug":"antiracism-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/antiracism-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Philosophy Program on Antiracism and Inclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg-primary-block alignfull\" >\n\t<div class=\"container grid-default wysiwyg__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"sidebar-menu \" aria-label=\"Site Menu\" id=\"page-nav\">\n\t\t<div class=\"sidebar-menu__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<header class=\"sidebar-menu__header\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sidebar-menu__headerLabel\">Philosophy Menu<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sidebar-menu__mobileToggle\" title=\"Toggle Menu\" :aria-expanded=\"mobileOpen\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"sidebar-menu__list\" v-show=\"mobileOpen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/philosophy\/for-you\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Philosophy Is For You<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/curriculum\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Philosophy Majors &#038; Minors<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/resources\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Philosophy Resources<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/philosophy\/philosophy-club\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >The Philosophy Club<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/philosophy\/antiracism-statement\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Statement of the Philosophy Program on Antiracism and Inclusivity<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg__wrapper wysiwyg__wrapper--hasSidebar\">\n\t\t\t<!-- content from editor -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg__content wysiwyg__contentContainer\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statement of the Philosophy Program on Antiracism and Inclusivity<\/h1><p>Philosophical practice is concerned with developing complex inquiries about all the ways in which the world appears to us and is experienced by us and our communities. As such, it can encourage us to reflect on and ask questions about personal, collective, and structural acts of injustice and multiple and intersecting systems of oppression. To be sure, different philosophical practices provide us with principles and techniques for reassessment of our ideas and institutions and have been concerned with issues of justice. However, philosophy (as a discipline), in the ways it\u2019s been commonly practiced in US academic institutions, has also been a province of the privileged, often unaware of its own biases and its exclusion dynamics, and has tolerated and advanced systems of oppression.\u00a0<br\/>Alongside Butler\u2019s current efforts to confront racism (interpersonally and structurally) and the national conversation on longstanding systemic and structural racism and the disproportionate violence experienced by Black Americans, we, as the philosophy faculty, therefore commit to reexamine our own practices in teaching, in research, and in service to our institution, discipline, and community, to see how we may by our actions better promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.\u00a0 We are grateful to our colleagues and students at Butler who both in their academic work and in their activities outside the classroom have for many years shown a commitment to combat injustice in our community and around the world. Following in their footsteps, we commit to assess, and when necessary, change:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The place of topics centered on diversity and social justice in our curriculum<\/li><li>Our pedagogies<\/li><li>Our approach to our discipline\u2019s history and methods<\/li><li>How we connect our philosophical inquiries with harm, violence, and injustice experienced by marginalized communities<\/li><li>Our support of activities of our students outside the classroom that advocate for and enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice<\/li><li>Our hiring practices and recruitment efforts<\/li><\/ul><p>We welcome the insights and efforts of our students in helping us live up to these commitments.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"revision_note":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Statement of the Philosophy Program on Antiracism and Inclusivity | Butler University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/antiracism-statement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Statement of the Philosophy Program on Antiracism and Inclusivity | Butler University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/philosophy-religion\/antiracism-statement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College of Liberal Arts &amp; 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