Thinking about populations and races in time

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Roberta L Millstein

Abstract

Biologists and philosophers have offered differing concepts of biological race. That is, they have offered different candidates for what a biological correlate of race might be; for example, races might be subspecies, clades, lineages, ecotypes, or genetic clusters. One thing that is striking about each of these proposals is that they all depend on a concept of population. Indeed, some authors have explicitly characterized races in terms of populations. However, including the concept of population into concepts of race raises three puzzles, all having to do with time. In this paper, I extend the causal interactionist population concept (CIPC) by introducing some simple assumptions about how to understand populations through time. These assumptions help to shed light on the three puzzles, and in the process show that if we want to understand races in terms of populations, we will need to revise our concept(s) of race.

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Apr 10, 2016·Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·Adam Hochman
Mar 11, 2015·Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherRasmus Nielsen
Feb 11, 2015·Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·Jonathan Michael KaplanJoshua Alexander Banta
May 13, 2015·Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·Quayshawn Spencer

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