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Author Pierce, Jeremy, 1974- author.

Title A realist metaphysics of race : a context-sensitive, short-term retentionist, long-term revisionist approach / Jeremy Pierce.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Race.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pierce, Jeremy. Realist metaphysics of race : a context-sensitive, short-term retentionist, long-term revisionist approach. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] 9780739175606
ISBN 9780739175606 (cloth alk. paper)
9780739175613 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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