Philosophy of race meets population genetics

Abstract
In this paper, I respond to four common semantic and metaphysical objections that philosophers of race have launched at scholars who interpret recent human genetic clustering results in population genetics as evidence for biological racial realism. I call these objections 'the discreteness objection', 'the visibility objection', 'the very important objection', and 'the objectively real objection.' After motivating each objection, I show that...
Paper Details
Title
Philosophy of race meets population genetics
Published Date
Aug 1, 2015
Volume
52
Pages
46 - 55
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