Idowu Odeyemi

Idowu Odeyemi is a philosophy Ph.D. student and an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop on Global Priorities Research at Oxford University. His research centers on social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, and applied epistemology. As a June Harper Ph.D. Fellow, Idowu's research would seek to investigate two topics: First, whether effectiveness conflicts with reparation or if the former overrides the latter and vice versa. This topic bites into a deeper question that his intended research would try to answer: Are there reasons other than efficiency to prioritize some issues rather than others? Secondly, does reparative justice, in fact, require paying reparations to people who have never actually been slaves?