The Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy ("SSAP"), based in New York City, has been a forum for the discussion of philosophical ideas for over thirty years. SSAP was established to provide a network of support for young African American philosophers and other intellectuals in the academy, to bring together alternative voices to de-center the predominant 'Eurocentric' focus of and lack of diversity in most academic philosophy departments, and to provide a place for lay intellectuals to exchange ideas with professional academics in an informal setting.
Alfred E. Prettyman, Host
Calendar
Next Meeting
When: May 16, 2010, 1:30 P.M.
Where: 215 W. 98th Street, No. 12B (Apt. of Al Prettyman)
Some of our members: (Standing) Danjumma Modupe, Leo Downes, Paul Hardy, David Woods, Judith Green, and Howard McGary. (Seated) David E. McClean, Bill Lawson and Frank Kirkland. Photo, courtesy of Al Prettyman.
A Sample of Members' Work
Cornel West, Author of Race Matters; The American Evasion of Philosophy and Other Works was one of the Society's Founding Members. Click Image for Video, "The Heart of Cornel West"
Prof. Lucius Outlaw of Vanderbilt University, author of On Race and Philosophy, broke ground with his work in Africana Philosophy
by Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
In Kierkegaard - History and Eternal Happiness, Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie (Philosophy - Medgar Evers College, CUNY), takes on themes in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript and other writings.
Member Greg Moses's Revolution of Conscience explores King's philosophical thought in fresh ways.
Edited by SSAP Member Bill Lawson, and Don Koch, with contributions by Al Prettyman, Judith Green and David McClean
In Race and Social Justice, Dr. Howard McGary, long-time SSAP member, takes on, with deft moral analysis, such issues as affirmative action and reparations in this groundbreaking work.
Professors Frank Kirkland and Bill Lawson edit a collection of essays that probe more deeply into the philosophical temperament of one of the greatest civil and human rights leaders in American history.
Anna Stubblefield - Ethics Along the Color Line
Dr. David E. McClean (Former SSAP President)
David's Recent and Related Writing, and Works in Progress
"The Theological Uses of Rortian Ironism" in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (November 2008)
"Some Remarks on Paul Taylor's "After Race, After Justice, After History" (as presented at The Spindel Conference, University of Memphis, September 2008) Southern Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming)
Should We Conserve the Notion of Race? in the anthology, Pragmatism and the Problem of Race (Indiana University Press, 2004)
Review of In the Company of Black Men - The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City, by Craig Steven Wilder in Philosophia Africana (March 2003)
Review of The Ethics of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah in Philosophia Africana (August 2006))
Dissertation: Richard Rorty and Cosmopolitan Hope (Abstract)
Al Prettyman, presenting at the 2006 "Love in the Public Square" conference (Molloy College, Long Island)
Judith Green (Fordham University)
Philosophia Africana is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals helping to shape and articulate africana philosophy. Members of SSAP serve on its editorial board.
