Ron Mallon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1048252 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ron Mallon |
| PRENOMES | Ron |
| SOBRENOME | Mallon |
| ASSINATURA | MALLON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8347-8939 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What's at Stake in the Race Debate
How can there be so much apparent disagreement about what race is, when there is so much agreement on the facts surrounding race? In this paper, I develop this puzzle and consider several interpretations of work in the philosophy of race to try to answer it, several ways of understanding what the metaphysics of race is doing. I consider and reject the possibility that apparent disagreement is metaphysically substantive, and I also consider and re…
Racial Attitudes, Accumulation Mechanisms, and Disparities
What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views
Philosophy of race has experienced a vibrant period of development over the last three decades, and the fruits of this development, as well as its continuation, are fully on display in this book of
Microaggressions, Mechanisms, and Harm
The idea of “microaggressions” has proven a useful way of drawing attention to the potential impact of “small”-scale interpersonal behaviors upon members of historically or structurally subordinated groups. Despite increased public interest in microaggressions, scholarship and activism centering on microaggressions have also brought a range of controversies in their wake. Microaggressions systematically differ from routine insults in quantity or …
The Construction of Human Kinds
Social constructionist explanations of human kinds like race, gender, and homosexuality are commonplace in the social sciences and humanities, but what do they mean and what are their implications? The question is pressing in part because such putative constructs are among the most causally powerful kinds in the social sciences. Mallon’s book synthesizes a naturalistic account of the social construction of human kinds drawing on recent work in ev…
Was Race thinking invented in the modern West
Making Race Out of Nothing
This article introduces the sort of solution that has typically been given to the race puzzle, and suggests some ways in which such a solution might be extended and improved. Racial categories are not biological groupings, but are rather social roles of some sort. The denial of the biological reality of race, and accounts of racial phenomena spelled out in terms of social roles, representations, and practices of racial classification, are explore…
If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What
We have recently presented evidence for cross‐cultural variation in semantic intuitions and explored the implications of such variation for philosophical arguments that appeal to some theory of reference as a premise. Devitt (2011) and Ichikawa and colleagues (forthcoming) offer critical discussions of the experiment and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. In this response, we reiterate and clarify what we are really arguing for, and we sh…
Against Arguments from Reference
It is common in various quarters of philosophy to derive philosophically significant conclusions from theories of reference. In this paper, we argue that philosophers should give up on such ‘arguments from reference.’ Intuitions play a central role in establishing theories of reference, and recent cross‐cultural work suggests that intuitions about reference vary across cultures and between individuals within a culture ( Machery et al. 2004 ). We …
Human Categories Beyond Non‐essentialism
A Field Guide to Social Construction
A wide range of discussions throughout the humanities and social sciences include claims that various phenomena are "socially constructed." Many academics associate "social constructionism" with the so-called "science wars" in which social constructionism is identified with some sort of radical anti-realism about reality in general, or the findings of science in particular. But the move to radical anti-realism is only one way to develop the centr…
‘Race'
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Controversies over the innateness of cognitive structures play a persistent role in driving research in philosophy as well as cognitive science, but the appropriate way to understand the category of the innate remains in dispute. The invariantist approaches of Stich and Sober face counterexample cases of traits that, though developing invariantly across different environments, nonetheless are not held by nativism partisans to count as innate. App…
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
Political Liberalism, Cultural Membership, and the Family
L'A. examine la vision de la justice et de la famille defendue par John Rawls. Il rappelle que, pour ce dernier, la famille en tant que forme sociale est la base necessaire de la societe. L'A. se demande si cette affirmation est compatible avec la theorie de la justice que defend Rawls. Celle-ci s'articule autour de deux principes : le principe de difference qui veut que les inegalites sociales offrent un benefice maximum pour les moins avantages…
A Field Guide to Social Construction
A wide range of discussions throughout the humanities and social sciences include claims that various phenomena are "socially constructed." Many academics associate "social constructionism" with the so-called "science wars" in which social constructionism is identified with some sort of radical anti-realism about reality in general, or the findings of science in particular. But the move to radical anti-realism is only one way to develop the centr…
Against Arguments from Reference
It is common in various quarters of philosophy to derive philosophically significant conclusions from theories of reference. In this paper, we argue that philosophers should give up on such ‘arguments from reference.’ Intuitions play a central role in establishing theories of reference, and recent cross‐cultural work suggests that intuitions about reference vary across cultures and between individuals within a culture ( Machery et al. 2004 ). We …
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
Human Categories Beyond Non‐essentialism
If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What
We have recently presented evidence for cross‐cultural variation in semantic intuitions and explored the implications of such variation for philosophical arguments that appeal to some theory of reference as a premise. Devitt (2011) and Ichikawa and colleagues (forthcoming) offer critical discussions of the experiment and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. In this response, we reiterate and clarify what we are really arguing for, and we sh…
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Controversies over the innateness of cognitive structures play a persistent role in driving research in philosophy as well as cognitive science, but the appropriate way to understand the category of the innate remains in dispute. The invariantist approaches of Stich and Sober face counterexample cases of traits that, though developing invariantly across different environments, nonetheless are not held by nativism partisans to count as innate. App…
Was Race thinking invented in the modern West
Political Liberalism, Cultural Membership, and the Family
L'A. examine la vision de la justice et de la famille defendue par John Rawls. Il rappelle que, pour ce dernier, la famille en tant que forme sociale est la base necessaire de la societe. L'A. se demande si cette affirmation est compatible avec la theorie de la justice que defend Rawls. Celle-ci s'articule autour de deux principes : le principe de difference qui veut que les inegalites sociales offrent un benefice maximum pour les moins avantages…
The Odd Couple
Evolutionary psychology and social constructionism are widely regarded as fundamentally irreconcilable approaches to the social sciences. Focusing on the study of the emotions, we argue that this appearance is mistaken. Much of what appears to be an empirical disagreement between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists over the universality or locality of emotional phenomena is actually generated by an implicit philosophical disput…
‘Race'
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Controversies over the innateness of cognitive structures play a persistent role in driving research in philosophy as well as cognitive science, but the appropriate way to understand the category of the innate remains in dispute. The invariantist approaches of Stich and Sober face counterexample cases of traits that, though developing invariantly across different environments, nonetheless are not held by nativism partisans to count as innate. App…
Human Categories Beyond Non‐essentialism
A Field Guide to Social Construction
A wide range of discussions throughout the humanities and social sciences include claims that various phenomena are "socially constructed." Many academics associate "social constructionism" with the so-called "science wars" in which social constructionism is identified with some sort of radical anti-realism about reality in general, or the findings of science in particular. But the move to radical anti-realism is only one way to develop the centr…
Against Arguments from Reference
It is common in various quarters of philosophy to derive philosophically significant conclusions from theories of reference. In this paper, we argue that philosophers should give up on such ‘arguments from reference.’ Intuitions play a central role in establishing theories of reference, and recent cross‐cultural work suggests that intuitions about reference vary across cultures and between individuals within a culture ( Machery et al. 2004 ). We …
Making Race Out of Nothing
This article introduces the sort of solution that has typically been given to the race puzzle, and suggests some ways in which such a solution might be extended and improved. Racial categories are not biological groupings, but are rather social roles of some sort. The denial of the biological reality of race, and accounts of racial phenomena spelled out in terms of social roles, representations, and practices of racial classification, are explore…
If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What
We have recently presented evidence for cross‐cultural variation in semantic intuitions and explored the implications of such variation for philosophical arguments that appeal to some theory of reference as a premise. Devitt (2011) and Ichikawa and colleagues (forthcoming) offer critical discussions of the experiment and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. In this response, we reiterate and clarify what we are really arguing for, and we sh…
Was Race thinking invented in the modern West
The Construction of Human Kinds
Social constructionist explanations of human kinds like race, gender, and homosexuality are commonplace in the social sciences and humanities, but what do they mean and what are their implications? The question is pressing in part because such putative constructs are among the most causally powerful kinds in the social sciences. Mallon’s book synthesizes a naturalistic account of the social construction of human kinds drawing on recent work in ev…
What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views
Philosophy of race has experienced a vibrant period of development over the last three decades, and the fruits of this development, as well as its continuation, are fully on display in this book of
Microaggressions, Mechanisms, and Harm
The idea of “microaggressions” has proven a useful way of drawing attention to the potential impact of “small”-scale interpersonal behaviors upon members of historically or structurally subordinated groups. Despite increased public interest in microaggressions, scholarship and activism centering on microaggressions have also brought a range of controversies in their wake. Microaggressions systematically differ from routine insults in quantity or …
Racial Attitudes, Accumulation Mechanisms, and Disparities
What's at Stake in the Race Debate
How can there be so much apparent disagreement about what race is, when there is so much agreement on the facts surrounding race? In this paper, I develop this puzzle and consider several interpretations of work in the philosophy of race to try to answer it, several ways of understanding what the metaphysics of race is doing. I consider and reject the possibility that apparent disagreement is metaphysically substantive, and I also consider and re…
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