Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 24.892 (Spring 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Linguistics and Philosophy 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Sally Haslanger
  Prof. Koffi Maglo 
• Course Introduction:
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  24.892 Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive list of readings with corresponding reading questions.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race?