Tag: Philip Kitcher

  • The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…

  • Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? Philosophy & Public Affairs Volume 35, Issue 4 (Fall 2007) pages 293–317 DOI: 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00115.x Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University There are simple and powerful arguments against the biological reality of race. Although the phenotypic characteristics, the manifest features that have traditionally been used to divide our…