Ron Mallon

The Construction of Human Kinds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 159mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755678
• ISBN-10: 0198755678
• Artikelnr.: 47865864

Autorenporträt

Ron Mallon, Associate Professor & Director of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University, Saint Louis Ron Mallon (Ph.D. Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the PNP Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is at the intersection of the philosophy of psychology and social theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Constructing Human Kinds
1: Constructing and Constraining Representations: Was Race Thinking Invented in the Modern West?
2: Constructing Categories: Concepts, Actions and Social Roles
3: Social Roles that Matter
4: Natural Permission and the Naturalistic Fallacy
5: Performed Categories, Self-Explanation, and Agency
Part II: Realizing Social Construction
6: Social Construction and Reality
7: Achieving Stability
8: Achieving Reference
9: Conclusion: Alternatives and Implications
Acknowledgements
Bibliography