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An Inquiry Concerning the Nature of Racial Discourse
dc.contributor.advisor | Schulz, Armin W | |
dc.contributor.author | Osmanoglu, Kamuran | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-04T17:29:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-04T17:29:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:17175 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34509 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this dissertation, I assess the nature of racial discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue against the new biological racial realism, according to which races are genetic natural kinds or distinct parts of the human phylogenetic tree. I show—on both empirical and theoretical grounds—that the reality of race cannot be supported in this way. Then, I turn to evolutionary biology and psychology for a proper account of race that can underwrite racial discourse. According to this account, there is no specific psychological mechanism that has evolved to track races in humans: racial cognition in early infancy is the result of a psychological mechanism that humans have evolved to assess similarities/differences in human faces, and racial cognition later in life is the result of various mechanisms that evolved to track social groups of one kind or another. | |
dc.format.extent | 102 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Philosophy of science | |
dc.subject | facial familiarity | |
dc.subject | phylogenetics | |
dc.subject | race | |
dc.subject | racial cognition | |
dc.subject | social construction | |
dc.title | An Inquiry Concerning the Nature of Racial Discourse | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Maley, Corey | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Raff, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Robins, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Symons, John | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Philosophy | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-0849 | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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