Jeremy Pierce

A Realist Metaphysics of Race (eBook, ePUB)

A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739175613
• Artikelnr.: 42135554

Autorenporträt

By Jeremy Pierce

Inhaltsangabe

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