Prisoners of abstraction? The theory and measure of genetic variation, and the very concept of “race”

JM Kaplan, RG Winther - Biological theory, 2013 - Springer
It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race” off of biological theory or data. Indeed, the
technical meaning of “genetic variation” is fluid, and there is no single theoretical agreed …

A renewed call for disaggregation of racial and ethnic data: Advancing scientific rigor and equity in gifted and talented education research

G Yeung, RU Mun - Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers in gifted and talented education (GATE) have increasingly taken on the role of
advocating equity and access for minoritized populations. However, subgroups of racially …

Realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about race

JM Kaplan, RG Winther - Philosophy of Science, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper distinguishes three concepts of “race”: bio-genomic cluster/race, biological race,
and social race. We map out realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about each of these …

The Genetic Reification of" Race"?: A Story of Two Mathematical Methods

RG Winther - Critical Philosophy of Race, 2014 - muse.jhu.edu
Two families of mathematical methods lie at the heart of investigating the hierarchical
structure of genetic variation in Homo sapiens: diversity partitioning, which assesses genetic …

[图书][B] Our genes: a philosophical perspective on human evolutionary genomics

R Winther - 2022 - books.google.com
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes explores historical
practices, investigates current trends, and imagines future work in genetic research to …

The Self-Fulfilling Process of Clinical Race Correction: The Case of Eighth Joint National Committee Recommendations

LC Savage, A Panofsky - Health Equity, 2023 - liebertpub.com
There is growing attention to how unfounded beliefs about biological differences between
racial groups affect biomedical research and health care, in part, through race adjustment in …

[PDF][PDF] Genes (&) Mestizos

CL Beltrán - Genómica y raza en la biomedicina, 2011 - academia.edu
La idea de que la especie humana está fraccionada en subespecies o razas ocupa un lugar
infame en la historia de Occidente. La historia de cómo se llegó a creer de modo dogmático …

The quantification of intelligence in nineteenth-century craniology: An epistemology of measurement perspective

M Luchetti - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Springer
Craniology–the practice of inferring intelligence differences from the measurement of human
skulls–survived the dismissal of phrenology and remained a widely popular research …

Clines, clusters, and clades in the race debate

M Kopec - Philosophy of Science, 2014 - cambridge.org
In this paper, I argue against Andreasen and Sesardic, who have both claimed that recent
cluster results in population genetics serve as evidence that the human species contains, or …

Little white lies: Racialization and the White/Black divide

E Kaschak - Women & Therapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article emphasizes the importance of considering the history, context and
epistemological bases of the use of race and racial categories in North America. Using this …