Robin Andreasen - Sept 20 University of Delaware

Abstract
Race was once thought to be a real biological kind. Today, however, the dominant view is that objective biological races don? exist. I challenge this trend by arguing that cladism, in conjunction with current work in human evolution, provides a new way to define race biologically. I also discuss some ways that the cladistic race concept challenges common sense beliefs about the biological reality of race.

Biography
Robin Andreasen is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of social science. She has several publications on biological reality of race and is currently working on two projects involving realism and classification in the social sciences as well as one on the human genome project.

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Fall 2001