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A realist metaphysics of race : a context-sensitive, short-term retentionist, long-term revisionist approach / Jeremy Pierce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierce, Jeremy, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>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. </span></span>
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7561-0
- OCLC:
- 898476815
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