Realist Metaphysics of Race Acb

Klappentext Chapter 1: Natural Kinds and the Analogy of Species Chapter 2: Natural Kinds and Race Chapter 3: Classic Anti-Realism Chapter 4: Glasgow's Anti-Realism Chapter 5: Social Construction and Biological Constructionism Chapter 6: Races and the Metaphysics of Objects and Groups Chapter 7: Context-Sensitive Features of Racial Classification Chapter 8: The Ethics of the Metaphysics of Race Chapter 9: Colorblindness! Implicit Bias! and Essentialized Categories Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Natural Kinds and the Analogy of Species Chapter 2: Natural Kinds and Race Chapter 3: Classic Anti-Realism Chapter 4: Glasgow's Anti-Realism Chapter 5: Social Construction and Biological Constructionism Chapter 6: Races and the Metaphysics of Objects and Groups Chapter 7: Context-Sensitive Features of Racial Classification Chapter 8: The Ethics of the Metaphysics of Race Chapter 9: Colorblindness! Implicit Bias! and Essentialized Categories

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• Authors: Jeremy Pierce, Pierce Jeremy
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780739175606
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7560-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Social discrimination & inequality, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General