24.892 Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study, Spring 2004
Author(s)
Maglo, Koffi
Haslanger, Sally
Alternative Title
Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study
Date Issued
June 2004
Abstract
This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race?
Subjects
Philosophy
race
natural kinds
classification
Appiah
naming
genomics
marriage
intermarriage
history of science
DNA
eugenics
biology
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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