Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Natural kinds and the analogy of species -- Natural kinds and race -- Classic anti-realism -- Glasgow's anti-realism -- Social construction and biological constructionism -- Races and the metaphysics of objects and groups -- Context-sensitive features of racial classification -- The ethics of the metaphysics of race -- Colorblindness, implicit bias, and essentialized categories -- Concluding reflections -- Bibliography
Summary
This book defends a non-pragmatist social kind view of race, approaching the issue from the perspective of analytic philosophy. Heavily informed by contemporary philosophy of race, it argues against anti-realist and natural kind views while representing a new version of social kind theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index
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