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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dear Students and Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Thank you
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">to all those who were able to attend<span style="color:#212121">
</span>Brenda Lara’s talk last week—we had great turnout and discussion. <span style="color:#212121">
We have another </span>talk tomorrow, <b><span style="color:#212121">Friday</span>, October 6<sup>th</sup>
</b><span style="color:#212121">from <b>3</b></span><b>:30<span style="color:#212121"> to 5 p.m</span></b><span style="color:#212121">. in
<b>COB2 290</b></span>:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Paul Irikefe</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> (UC
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Irvine<span style="color:#212121">) will visit us to discuss h</span>is<span style="color:#212121"> work on
</span>"The vice of nepotism: The political, the moral, and the epistemic"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nepotism forms a core part of our everyday moral and socio-political vocabulary, and yet we lack a coherent account of it. The aim of this paper is to supply that account. I argue
that nepotism (i.e., nepotism proper) is a moral vice, which has a hitherto unnoticed epistemic counterpart, namely, “epistemic nepotism.” Further, I claim that both forms of nepotism arise from a vicious motive, morbid love of one’s “primordial private realm,”
which makes individuals to assign undue weight to the side of the distributive equation they belong to, thus leading to injustice in the distribution of social and epistemic goods. The result of the analysis is then used to address the question as to how vice
attribution or explanation is cogent in cases of individuals whose epistemic conduct proceeds from value or ideology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">A poster is attached. You are all welcome to attend. Please share with other interested students and faculty.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Carolyn Dicey Jennings</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092F44;text-transform:uppercase">CAROLYN DICEY JENNINGS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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