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A Realist Metaphysics of Race
A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach
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2014
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In A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce defends a social kind view of racial categories. On this view, the biological features we use to classify people racially do not make races natural kinds. Rather, races exist because of contingent social practices, single out certain groups of people as races, give them social importance, and allow us to name them as races. Pierce also identifies several kinds of context-sensitivity as central to how racial categorization works and argues that we need racial categories to identify problems in how our racial constructions are formed, including the harmful effects of racial constructions. Hence, rather than seeking to eliminate such categories, Pierce argues that we should also make efforts to change the conditions that generate their problematic elements, with an eye toward retaining only the unproblematic aspects.
A Realist Metaphysics of Race contains insights relevant not just to professional philosophers in metaphysics, philosophy of race, social philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, but also to students and scholars working in sociology, biology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and political science.
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2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7560-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7561-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
165
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Natural Kinds and the Analogy of Species No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Natural Kinds and Race No access Pages 13 - 26
3 Classic Race Anti-Realism No access Pages 27 - 44
4 Glasgow’s Race Anti-Realism No access Pages 45 - 70
5 Social Construction and Biological Constructionism No access Pages 71 - 88
6 Races and the Metaphysics of Objects and Groups No access Pages 89 - 98
7 Context-Sensitive Features of Racial Assignment No access Pages 99 - 116
8 The Ethics of the Metaphysics of Race No access Pages 117 - 136
9 Color Blindness, Implicit Bias, and Essentialized Categorization No access Pages 137 - 146
