Call for submissions

In the wake of the publication of the French translation of Charles W. Mills’ The Racial Contract (Mémoire d’encrier, Montreal, 2023), this special issue of The Ethics Forum/Ateliers de l’éthique exceptionally invites contributions in the form of critical studies of his works, comparative studies, and short commemorative essays, in addition to academic articles. 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.

Deadline: Ongoing until August 15th, 2023. See the call for submissions in .pdf.

Co-edited by: Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (York), Ryoa Chung (UdeM) et Naïma Hamrouni (Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe, UQTR).

Format : Texts from approximately 6000 to 12000 words – Times New Roman, 12 points – Notes placed at end of text and not end of page.

Article submission : Include an abstract of 200 words max. in English and French. Articles should be submitted at Dr Éliot Litalien (CRÉ), via email at: eliot.litalien@umontreal.ca.

*The Ethics Forum/Les ateliers de l’éthique is the bilingual (English and French) journal of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), and now publishes three 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-blind review process will be published.