BERNARD BOXILL Pardue Professor

Bernard Boxill works in social and political philosophy and African American philosophy. He is the author of Blacks and Social Justice (1984), editor of Race and Racism (2001), and is currently finishing A History of African American Political Thought: From Martin Delany to the Present, and Boundaries and Justice, on international ethics and distributive justice. Sample publications: "Morality of Reparations," Social Theory and Practice (1972); "Self-Respect and Protest," Philosophy and Public Affairs (1976); "The Morality of Preferential Hiring," Philosophy and Public Affairs (1978); "Sexual Blindness and Sexual Equality," Social Theory and Practice (1980); "How Injustice Pays," Philosophy and Public Affairs (1980); "Global Equality of Opportunity," Social Philosophy and Policy (1987); "Equality, Discrimination and Preferential Treatment," in A Companion to Ethics, ed. by Singer (1990); "Wilson and the Underclass," Ethics (1990); "Dignity, Slavery and the 13th Amendment," in The Constitution of Rights, ed. by Meyer and Parent (1992); "Two Traditions in African American Political Thought," Philosophical Forum (1993); "On Some Criticisms of Consent Theory," Journal of Social Philosophy (1993); "The Culture of Poverty," Social Philosophy and Policy (1994); "Fear and Shame as forms of moral persuasion in the thought of Frederick Douglass, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (1995); "Washington, DuBois, and Plessy v. Ferguson," Law and Philosophy (1997); "Power and Poverty, the Prospects for World Peace," Philosophical Perspecitves on Power and Domination, ed. by Bove and Kaplan (1998); “Power and Persuasion,” Journal of Social Philosophy (2001); “Kant and Race,” with Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Race and Racism,” (2001); “The Morality of Reparations, II,” A Comanion to African American Philosophy, ed.by Lott and Pittman, (2003); “The Backward Looking Case for Affirmative Action,” with Jan Boxill, Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics ed. by Wellman, (2003); “Affirmative Action in Higher Education,” A Companion To The Philosophy of Education ed. by Blackwell, (2003); “A Lockean Argument for Black Reparations,” The Journal of Ethics Volume 7, (2003); “Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race,” Racism in Mind, ed. by Levine and Pataki, (2003); “Rousseau, Natural Man, and Race,” Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy ed. by Valls (2005); “Lockean Arguments for Affirmative Action,” Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy, ed. by Thomas (forthcoming); “The Counterfactual and Inheritance Arguments for Black Reparations,” Reparations for African Americans, ed. by McGary (forthcoming). [Complete CV]

phone: (919) 962-3328
email: brboxill@email.unc.edu