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Race: Deflate or pop?

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Jun 2016

Hochman Adam

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Neven Sesardic has recently defended his arguments in favour of racial naturalism-the view that race is a valid biological category-in response to my criticism of his work. While Sesardic claims that a strong version of racial naturalism can survive critique, he has in fact weakened his position considerably. He concedes that conventional racial taxonomy is arbitrary and he no longer identifies 'races' as human...

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PMID: 27060241
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.03.003

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