@Article{ AUTHOR = {Gill, Michael B. Gill}, TITLE = {Of Racist Philosophers and Ravens}, JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas}, VOLUME = {3}, YEAR = {2023}, NUMBER = {1}, PAGES = {0--0}, URL = {https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/230}, ISSN = {2694-5991}, ABSTRACT = {How can historians of philosophy justify spending the preponderance of their professional lives writing about historical philosophers who held racist views? I use the controversy over University of Edinburgh’s David Hume Tower as a jumping-off place for discussion of this issue. I argue that worthwhile philosophical ideas in historical philosophers can be conceptually isolated from their racist views.}, DOI = {10.35995/jci03010002} }