Adam Hochman
Biographic Data
| ID | 637447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Hochman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochman |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4106-839X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Real Reason You Cannot be Transracial
The Afterlife of Race
Can social racial realism pass? Problems with ‘racial passing’ as an analytic category
‘Racial passing’ is a category of practice: a category that non-specialists use to understand the racialized world. Should it also be a category of analysis adopted by race scholars? I argue that it should not. The use of passing as an analytic category requires that individuals have a real race underneath their apparent race. Attempts to determine an individual's ‘real race’ seem to inevitably involve a deference to norms of racial classificatio…
Social kind vs. conferralist approaches to social ontology
Philosophers often understand social categories as conferred or as social kinds. The relationship between conferralism and a social kind approach to social ontology remains unclear. Conferralism is often interpreted as a way of understanding the nature of social kinds, rather than as an alternative to a social kind approach. In this paper, I argue that these two approaches are in fact radically different, and I identify the challenges unique to e…
Further Defense of the Racialization Concept
In my article, Racialization: A Defense of the Concept , I argue that ‘race’ fails as an analytic category and that we should think in terms of ‘racialization’ and ‘racialized groups’ instead. I define these concepts and defend them against a range of criticisms. In Rethinking Racialization: The Analytical Limits of Racialization , Deniz Uyan critiques my “theory of racialization”. However, I do not defend a theory of racialization; I defend the …
What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views
“Race” is a highly contested category. What is Race? Four Philosophical Views brings together four leading philosophers of race to advance their theories and engage with each other. The result is a must-read for any philosopher of race and a highly valuable resource for anyone trying to understand this important and complex topic.The four philosophical views (or is it five?) are as follows: Sally Haslanger defends political constructionism, accor…
Janus‐faced race
As belief in the reality of race as a biological category among U.S. anthropologists has fallen, belief in the reality of race as a social category has risen in its place. The view that race simply does not exist—that it is a myth—is treated with suspicion. While racial classification is linked to many of the worst evils of recent history, it is now widely believed to be necessary to fight back against racism. In this article, I argue that race i…
Racialization
This paper defends the concept of racialization against its critics. As the concept has become increasingly popular, questions about its meaning and value have been raised, and a backlash against its use has occurred. I argue that when "racialization" is properly understood, criticisms of the concept are unsuccessful. I defend a definition of racialization and identify its companion concept, "racialized group." Racialization is often used as a sy…
Is "Race" Modern
Race theorists have been unable to reach a consensus regarding the basic historical question, "is 'race' modern?" I argue that this is partly because the question itself is ambiguous. There is not really one question that race scholars are answering, but at least six. First, is theconcept of racemodern? Second, is there a modern concept of race that isdistinct from earlier race concepts? Third, are"races" themselvesmodern? Fourth, areracialized g…
Race
Of Vikings and Nazis
Unnaturalised racial naturalism
Racial discrimination
Do We Need a Device to Acquire Ethnic Concepts
Francisco Gil-White argues that the ubiquity of racialism —the view that so-called races have biological essences—can be explained as a by-product of a shared mental module dedicated to ethnic cognition. Gil-White’s theory has been endorsed, with some revisions, by Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher. In this skeptical response I argue that our developmental environments contain a wealth, rather than a poverty of racialist stimulus, rendering a nativ…
Racialization
This paper defends the concept of racialization against its critics. As the concept has become increasingly popular, questions about its meaning and value have been raised, and a backlash against its use has occurred. I argue that when "racialization" is properly understood, criticisms of the concept are unsuccessful. I defend a definition of racialization and identify its companion concept, "racialized group." Racialization is often used as a sy…
Racial discrimination
Janus‐faced race
As belief in the reality of race as a biological category among U.S. anthropologists has fallen, belief in the reality of race as a social category has risen in its place. The view that race simply does not exist—that it is a myth—is treated with suspicion. While racial classification is linked to many of the worst evils of recent history, it is now widely believed to be necessary to fight back against racism. In this article, I argue that race i…
Race
Is "Race" Modern
Race theorists have been unable to reach a consensus regarding the basic historical question, "is 'race' modern?" I argue that this is partly because the question itself is ambiguous. There is not really one question that race scholars are answering, but at least six. First, is theconcept of racemodern? Second, is there a modern concept of race that isdistinct from earlier race concepts? Third, are"races" themselvesmodern? Fourth, areracialized g…
Of Vikings and Nazis
Do We Need a Device to Acquire Ethnic Concepts
Francisco Gil-White argues that the ubiquity of racialism —the view that so-called races have biological essences—can be explained as a by-product of a shared mental module dedicated to ethnic cognition. Gil-White’s theory has been endorsed, with some revisions, by Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher. In this skeptical response I argue that our developmental environments contain a wealth, rather than a poverty of racialist stimulus, rendering a nativ…
Racial discrimination
Do We Need a Device to Acquire Ethnic Concepts
Francisco Gil-White argues that the ubiquity of racialism —the view that so-called races have biological essences—can be explained as a by-product of a shared mental module dedicated to ethnic cognition. Gil-White’s theory has been endorsed, with some revisions, by Edouard Machery and Luc Faucher. In this skeptical response I argue that our developmental environments contain a wealth, rather than a poverty of racialist stimulus, rendering a nativ…
Unnaturalised racial naturalism
Of Vikings and Nazis
Race
Racialization
This paper defends the concept of racialization against its critics. As the concept has become increasingly popular, questions about its meaning and value have been raised, and a backlash against its use has occurred. I argue that when "racialization" is properly understood, criticisms of the concept are unsuccessful. I defend a definition of racialization and identify its companion concept, "racialized group." Racialization is often used as a sy…
Is "Race" Modern
Race theorists have been unable to reach a consensus regarding the basic historical question, "is 'race' modern?" I argue that this is partly because the question itself is ambiguous. There is not really one question that race scholars are answering, but at least six. First, is theconcept of racemodern? Second, is there a modern concept of race that isdistinct from earlier race concepts? Third, are"races" themselvesmodern? Fourth, areracialized g…
Further Defense of the Racialization Concept
In my article, Racialization: A Defense of the Concept , I argue that ‘race’ fails as an analytic category and that we should think in terms of ‘racialization’ and ‘racialized groups’ instead. I define these concepts and defend them against a range of criticisms. In Rethinking Racialization: The Analytical Limits of Racialization , Deniz Uyan critiques my “theory of racialization”. However, I do not defend a theory of racialization; I defend the …
What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views
“Race” is a highly contested category. What is Race? Four Philosophical Views brings together four leading philosophers of race to advance their theories and engage with each other. The result is a must-read for any philosopher of race and a highly valuable resource for anyone trying to understand this important and complex topic.The four philosophical views (or is it five?) are as follows: Sally Haslanger defends political constructionism, accor…
Janus‐faced race
As belief in the reality of race as a biological category among U.S. anthropologists has fallen, belief in the reality of race as a social category has risen in its place. The view that race simply does not exist—that it is a myth—is treated with suspicion. While racial classification is linked to many of the worst evils of recent history, it is now widely believed to be necessary to fight back against racism. In this article, I argue that race i…
Social kind vs. conferralist approaches to social ontology
Philosophers often understand social categories as conferred or as social kinds. The relationship between conferralism and a social kind approach to social ontology remains unclear. Conferralism is often interpreted as a way of understanding the nature of social kinds, rather than as an alternative to a social kind approach. In this paper, I argue that these two approaches are in fact radically different, and I identify the challenges unique to e…
The Afterlife of Race
Can social racial realism pass? Problems with ‘racial passing’ as an analytic category
‘Racial passing’ is a category of practice: a category that non-specialists use to understand the racialized world. Should it also be a category of analysis adopted by race scholars? I argue that it should not. The use of passing as an analytic category requires that individuals have a real race underneath their apparent race. Attempts to determine an individual's ‘real race’ seem to inevitably involve a deference to norms of racial classificatio…
The Real Reason You Cannot be Transracial
Gender Studies (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Race (biology (5 works) · Political science (4 works)