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Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie)
"Du Bois' Theory of the Talented Tenth: Evaluating His Self-Evaluation"

2024 | 2025

ISSUE NO. 1 | VOLUME CXXV

MONDAY, 14 october 2025

17.30 - 19.15

chike

about

Chike Jeffers is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with broad interests in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is co-author of What is Race? Four Philosophical Views with Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, and Quayshawn Spencer. He also co-authored the scripted episodes of a podcast series, the History of Africana Philosophy, with Peter Adamson. This is part of Adamson’s larger series, A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Chike is currently working on a book-length introduction to W.E.B. Du Bois as a philosopher.

Meeting Address

Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

meeting time

The Society’s philosophy talks take place every fortnight on Mondays throughout the academic year. Each talk starts at 17.30 and lasts for approximately an hour. The remainder of the time is dedicated to discussion, which ends at 19.15.

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Final Papers

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