RIMA BASU
About Me and My Work:
I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. You can email me at rbasu@cmc.edu.
The central theme of my work is that when it comes to what we should believe, morality is not voiceless. You can read more about my work in this short Aeon article, "To avoid moral failure, don’t see people as Sherlock does".
In philosophy jargon, my research—at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of race—examines the question of how we ought relate to one another, focussing on the epistemic dimensions of wrongs such as racism. I argue that there are moral and social constraints on our epistemic practices; what we owe to each other encompasses not only word and deeds, but also beliefs.
The central theme of my work is that when it comes to what we should believe, morality is not voiceless. You can read more about my work in this short Aeon article, "To avoid moral failure, don’t see people as Sherlock does".
In philosophy jargon, my research—at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of race—examines the question of how we ought relate to one another, focussing on the epistemic dimensions of wrongs such as racism. I argue that there are moral and social constraints on our epistemic practices; what we owe to each other encompasses not only word and deeds, but also beliefs.
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Last updated: June 24 2019