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A Realist Metaphysics of Race : A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach

Pierce, Jeremy [Verfasser]

Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books, 2014

[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : [ProQuest]

1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)

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978-0-7391-7561-3 ; 978-0-7391-7560-6

 

This book defends a non-pragmatist social kind view of race, approaching the issue from the perspective of analytic philosophy. Heavily informed by contemporary philosophy of race, it argues against anti-realist and natural kind views while representing a new version of social kind theory.