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" A theory of race / "
Joshua Glasgow
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628858
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Glasgow, Joshua
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A theory of race /\ Joshua Glasgow
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2009
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x, 172 p. ;; 23 cm
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9780415990721
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: 0415990726
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: 9780415990738
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: 0415990734
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: 9780415996808
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: 0415996805
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: 0203880951
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: 9780203880951
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-166) and index
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| Contents
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The race debate -- Dispatches from the armchair: thinning out the concept of race : Concepts and conceptions, meanings and theories ; Conceptual border-drawing: a tale of two sets of twins ; Racial twin earth: an argument for a thin account ; Loose ends -- Methodology: how should we figure out the shape of racial discourse? : Three methodologies ; The historical-expert approach ; Some potential objections to the folk approach ; Which folk? -- The contours of racial discourse : Racial thinking, conceptual analysis, and the debate ; Some data ; The ordinary concept(s) and conception(s) of race -- Breaking nature's bones : How race might be biologically real ; The ways we look ; Genetic racial realism ; Populationism, the mismatch objection, and beyond ; Race, medicine, and explanatory vindication ; Conclusion -- Constructivism, revisionism, and anti-realism : The constructivist response to elimiativism ; The centrality of the biological ; The revisionist rejoinder -- Reconstructionism : The normative question ; Reconstructionism articulated ; An initial defense ; Family rivalries: alternative substitutionist theories -- Afterword
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"Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options." "Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET
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"Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options." "Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET
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Race-- Philosophy
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GN269.G52 2009
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