{"title":"Biological Explanations of Social Inequalities","authors":"D. Lowe","doi":"10.1111/papq.12427","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": Inequalitiesof socialgoods between gender,racial, or other groups call outforexplanation.Suchinequalitiesmightbeexplainedbysocializationanddis-crimination.Buthistoricallysomehaveattributedtheseinequalitiestobiological differences between social groups. Such explanations are highly controversial: on theone hand, theyhavea very troublingracistand sexisthistory, but on the other hand, they are empirical claims","PeriodicalId":47097,"journal":{"name":"PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12427","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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: Inequalitiesof socialgoods between gender,racial, or other groups call outforexplanation.Suchinequalitiesmightbeexplainedbysocializationanddis-crimination.Buthistoricallysomehaveattributedtheseinequalitiestobiological differences between social groups. Such explanations are highly controversial: on theone hand, theyhavea very troublingracistand sexisthistory, but on the other hand, they are empirical claims
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly is a journal of general philosophy in the analytic tradition, publishing original articles from all areas of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics and history of philosophy. Periodically, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly publishes special editions devoted to the investigation of important topics in a particular field.