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This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to
focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such
issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender
perspective.
For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study
in departments of sociology, history, political science, English,
and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of
race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and
political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in
these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race
has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy,
metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of
language, and aesthetics. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of
Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on
race from the world's leading analytic and continental
philosophers. It is, however, accessible to a readership beyond
philosophy as well, providing a cohesive reference for a wide
student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current
philosophical understandings of race, providing 37 chapters on the
history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be
investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy.
The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to
some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy, like
colonialism, affirmative action, eugenics, immigration, race and
disability, and post-racialism. By clearly explaining and carefully
organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race, this
timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed
understanding of race to students and researchers in the
humanities, social science, and sciences.
For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study
in departments of sociology, history, political science, English,
and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of
race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and
political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in
these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race
has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy,
metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of
language, and aesthetics. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of
Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on
race from the world's leading analytic and continental
philosophers. It is, however, accessible to a readership beyond
philosophy as well, providing a cohesive reference for a wide
student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current
philosophical understandings of race, providing 37 chapters on the
history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be
investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy.
The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to
some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy, like
colonialism, affirmative action, eugenics, immigration, race and
disability, and post-racialism. By clearly explaining and carefully
organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race, this
timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed
understanding of race to students and researchers in the
humanities, social science, and sciences.
"Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda Martin
Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism
or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy
insists on the influence that power and desire exert on knowing,
whereas contemporary analytic philosophy largely ignores these
political concerns in its accounts of justification and truth.
Alcoff engages these traditionally conflicting approaches in a
constructive dialogue, effectively spanning the
analytic/continental divide. In provocative readings of major
figures in the continental tradition, Alcoff shows that the work of
Hans-Georg Gadamer and Michel Foucault can help rectify key
problems in coherence epistemology, such as the link between
coherence and truth. She also argues that discussions about
knowledge among continental philosophers can benefit from the work
of analytic philosophers Donald Davidson and Hilary Putnam on
meaning and ontology. Alcoff makes a compelling case for the need
to address truth as a metaphysical issue, in contrast to minimalist
tendencies in Anglo-American philosophy and deconstructionism on
the continent. Her work persuasively argues for coherentist
epistemology as a more realistic reconfiguration of the ontology of
truth.
This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together
twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of
racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and
the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly
into the boxes society requires them to check.
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