TY - EJOU AU - Gill, G. Michael B. TI - Of Racist Philosophers and Ravens T2 - Journal of Controversial Ideas PY - 2023 VL - 3 IS - 1 SN - 2694-5991 AB - 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. KW - David Hume Tower KW - racism KW - David Hume KW - John Stuart Mill KW - Immanuel Kant KW - John Locke DO - 10.35995/jci03010002