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Hardimon, Michael O.

Rethinking racethe case for deflationary realism /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking raceMichael O. Hardimon.
Reminder of title:	the case for deflationary realism /
Author:	Hardimon, Michael O.
Published:	Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,2017.
Description:	1 online resource (226 p.) :ill.
Subject:	RacePhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674978447
ISBN:	9780674978447$q(electronic bk.)

Rethinking racethe case for deflationary realism /
Hardimon, Michael O.

Rethinking racethe case for deflationary realism /[electronic resource] :Michael O. Hardimon. - 1st ed. - Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,2017. - 1 online resource (226 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The racialist concept of race -- The minimalist concept of race -- Do minimalist races exist? -- Is minimalist race biologically real? -- The populationist concept of race -- Populationist race: Existence and reality -- The concept of socialrace -- Health, race, medicine.

Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael O. Hardimon criticizes this line of thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance. Pernicious, traditional racialism maintains that people can be ranked according to innate racial features. Those who would eliminate race make the mistake of associating the word only with this view. Hardimon agrees that this concept should be jettisoned, but draws a distinction with three alternative ideas: a stripped-down version of the ordinary concept that recognizes physical differences but considers them insignificant; a scientific understanding of populations with shared lines of descent; and an acknowledgement of "socialrace" as a separate construction. Hardimon provides a language for understanding ways that races do and do not exist. His account is realistic in recognizing the physical features of races and the existence of races in our social world. But it is deflationary in rejecting the concept of hierarchical, defining racial characteristics. Rethinking Race offers a philosophical basis for repudiating racism without blinding ourselves to reality.--

ISBN: 9780674978447$q(electronic bk.)

LCCN: 2016043670Subjects--Topical Terms:

296465
Race
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: GN269 / .H36 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8

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