Race in biology and anthropology: free special issue of STUDIES IN HPS C
A special issue of eight articles from STUDIES IN HISTORY
AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES on race in biology and
anthropology is now available for free downloading at the journal's website:
In the main journal, articles from the current (September
2013) issue connected with this theme include:
* A four-article special section edited by Quayshawn
Spencer on whether there's a "space for race" in evolutionary biology
after the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis, with contributions from Lisa
Gannett, Alan Templeton and Massimo Pigliucci
* A critical exchange between Adam Hochman and Neven
Sesardic on what has and hasn't been established about race and genetics
* An essay review by Petter Hellström of a recent book on
the use of genomics to reconstruct the history of world Jewry
* An essay review by Elise Juzda Smith of recent books on
the theories and practices of racial science in the nineteenth century
Other articles in the issue include:
* Elliott Sober on why trait fitness is not a propensity
(but fitness variation is)
* John van Wyhe on why it's OK after all to describe
Darwin as the Beagle's naturalist
* Marshall Abrams versus Denis Walsh on whether natural
selection is or is not a cause in its own right
* Lara Huber and Lara Keuck on how animal models in
biomedicine work
* Essay reviews of recent books on everything from the
decline of bloodletting to the ties that bind evolution and rationality
* Oren Harman on what to make of the growing presence of
neuroscience in criminal court cases
Gregory Radick
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science School of
Philosophy, Religion and History of Science University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT,
UK
Tel: (UK) 0113 343 3269
Editor-in-Chief, Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences