Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum

Special Issue: The Work and Legacy of Charles W. Mills

Guest Editors

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (York), Ryoa Chung (Université de Montréal) and Naïma Hamrouni (Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières).

(Revised) deadline for submission

1 Novembre 2023

In the wake of the publication of the French translation of Charles W. Mills’ The Racial Contract (Mémoire d’encrier, Montreal, 2023), Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum invites contributions for a special issue dedicated to Mills’ work and legacy. In addition to original research articles, the journal welcomes contributions in the form of critical studies of Mills’ works, comparative studies, and short commemorative essays. Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

·      Mills’ political philosophy

·      Mills’ philosophy and metaphysics of race (including a study of the debates between Mills and the eliminativists—Appiah, Zack, etc.)

·      Mills’ philosophy of structural racism (and its debates with proponents of competing approaches (behavioural, doxastic, volitional, etc.)

·      The contract of domination and non-ideal theory

·      The epistemology of ignorance (the relationship to Gordon’s white bad faith, and Drinnon’s self-mystification)

·      The politics of Mills’ citations Mills’ relationship to liberalism, feminism, marxism, and Black Radical Tradition

·      The debate between Mills and the proponents of multiculturalism

·      The place of reparation in Mills’ philosophy Mills and Caribbean anti-colonial struggles

·      The contract of domination and its application to the phenomena of neocolonialism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism.

Format of contributions

Submissions may be in English or French. Research articles should be approximately 6,000 to 12,000 words. The text must be anonymized and made suitable for anonymous review. Detailed submission guidelines can be found at: https://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/consignes-aux-auteurs-2014_mise-en-page-1.pdf.

Manuscripts should be sent by 1 November 2023 to: eliot.litalien@umontreal.ca.

*Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum is the bilingual (English and French) journal of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ). It publishes two issues per year fully accessible on the web. The journal is indexed in Philosopher’s Index, Philpapers.org, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals, Portail BiblioSHS de l’INIST and Papyrus, and in many other catalogs that use information from the above catalogs. Only those texts that are deemed publishable following the two- or three-peer double-anonymous review process will be published.