ENN New Voices: Anton Wilhelm Amo: Interview with Dwight K. Lewis, Jr.

In this episode, Haley speaks with Dwight K. Lewis Jr., assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of Minnesota. We talk about the life and works of the 18th century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, including his account of kinds of prejudice, and his views on justice as a tool and paradigm for reasoning. We also talk about the different contexts and manifestations of political resistance, and the need for varied mediums for philosophical ideas. 
 
Bibliography 

• Anton Wilhelm Amo, Inaugural Dissertation on the Impassivity of the Human Mind (1734). 
• Anton Wilhelm Amo, Philosophical Disputation Containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to Our Living and Organic Body (1734).  

*Both the original Latin and English translations of both texts are available in 

• Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body, edited and translated by Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith. Oxford University Press: 2020. 
• Allauren Forbes, “Prejudice as Viciousness: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo”, The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2023).
• Justin E.H. Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy. Princeton University Press: 2015. 

 
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