Race realism goes both ways
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12028812 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Desalle (0000-0002-6490-7109, American Museum of Natural History, corresponding author), Ian Tattersall (0000-0003-2855-6599) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-11 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0391-9714 • E-ISSN: 1742-6316 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s40656-024-00658-y |
| PMID | 39928194 |
| OpenAlex | W4407324062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
We examine the philosophy of race from the perspective of the identified problems with such a philosophy - domain problems, deference problems and mismatch problems. Any philosophy of race should consider at least two domains of human endeavor - the social and the natural. In most cases the social domain defers to the natural domain for a biological explanation for race. Some researchers suggest that there is an impasse in the natural domain that keeps the door open for a biological explanation of race. We examine this purported impasse and conclude that there is a complete lack of scientific support for the existence of human races, and that hence the impasse is a mirage. The inference of no biological races is not, however, a non-result. The consequent lack of support for biological races can be acknowledged by social scientists in formulating their social domain-oriented ontology of race
Biology · Deference · Domain (mathematical analysis · Epistemology · Inference · Natural (archaeology · Ontology · Perspective (graphical · Race (biology · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Artificial Intelligence
Race and Reification in Science
Conjectures and Refutations
The Apportionment of Human Diversity
The Meaning of ‘Race’
Forensic genetics and the prediction of race
Race and Reification
The unnatural racial naturalism
Biological races in humans
Philosophy of race meets population genetics
Are human races cladistic subspecies
Race
The Biological Reification of Race
Does ‘Race’ Have a Future
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race
The Trouble with Race in Forensic Identification
Genetic Racialization
Philosophy of Race
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |