{"id":44765,"date":"2015-12-24T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44765"},"modified":"2015-12-24T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:18:32","slug":"what-biological-racial-realism-should-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44765","title":{"rendered":"What \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 should mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11098-011-9697-2\" target=\"_blank\">What \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 should mean<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11098\" target=\"_blank\">Philosophical Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11098\/159\/2\/page\/1\" target=\"_blank\">June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2<\/a><br \/>\npages 181-204<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11098-011-9697-2\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s11098-011-9697-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.sas.upenn.edu\/bio\/spencer\" target=\"_blank\">Quayshawn Spencer<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A curious ambiguity has arisen in the race debate in recent years. That ambiguity is what is actually meant by \u2018biological racial realism\u2019. Some philosophers mean that \u2018race is a natural kind in biology\u2019, while others mean that \u2018race is a real biological kind\u2019. However, there is no agreement about what a natural kind or a real biological kind should be in the race debate. In this article, I will argue that the best interpretation of \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 is one that interprets \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 as \u2018race is a <em>genuine kind<\/em> in biology\u2019, where a genuine kind is a valid kind in a well-ordered scientific research program. I begin by reviewing previous interpretations of \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 in the race debate. Second, I introduce the idea of a genuine kind and compare it to various notions of natural and real biological kinds used in the race debate. Third, I present and defend an argument for my view. Fourth, I provide a few interesting consequences of my view for the race debate. Last, I provide a summary of the article.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/accesspage\/article\/10.1007\/s11098-011-9697-2?coverImageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic-content.springer.com%2Fcover%2Fjournal%2F11098%2F159%2F2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the author&#8217;s manuscript <a href=\"http:\/\/repository.usfca.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&amp;context=phil\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What \u2018biological racial realism\u2019 should mean Philosophical Studies June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2 pages 181-204 DOI: 10.1007\/s11098-011-9697-2 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania A curious ambiguity has arisen in the race debate in recent years. That ambiguity is what is actually meant by \u2018biological racial realism\u2019. Some philosophers mean that \u2018race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,6941],"tags":[22393,22394],"class_list":["post-44765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","tag-philosophical-studies","tag-quayshawn-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44772,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions\/44772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}