Tag: Ron Mallon

  • One influential view is that at least some putatively natural human kinds are actually social constructions, understood as some real kind of thing that is produced or sustained by our social and conceptual practices. Category constructionists share two commitments: they hold that human category terms like “race” (and racial terms) and “sex” (and sexual terms)…

  • 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…

  • Passing, Traveling and Reality: Social Constructionism and the Metaphysics of Race Noûs Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 644–673 DOI: 10.1111/j.0029-4624.2004.00487.x Ron Mallon, Associate Professor of Philosphy University of Utah Among race theorists, the view that race is a social construction is widespread. While the term ‘social construction’ is sometimes intended tomeanmerely that race…

  • Sources of Racialism Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 41, Issue 3 (Fall 2010) Special Issue: New Thinking in Race Theory. Edited by Paul C. Taylor and Ronald Robles Sundstorm pages 272–292 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2010.01498.x Ron Mallon, Associate Professor of Philosphy University of Utah Work in social philosophy on racial classification generally shares a commitment to “social…