Robin O. Andreasen

Robin O. Andreasen is a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of race and gender. In 2007 she was Associate Professor of Philosophy, Linguistics & Cognitive Science and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Andreason is known for her cladistic concept of race, first published in 1998, in the paper 'A New Perspective on the Race Debate' in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. In this paper, she revived biological racial realism with the view that race can be understood as a natural kind in cladistic systematics if we define it as the set of infraspecific clades within biological species.
Works
* (2007) 'Biological Conceptions of Race'. in M. Matthen and C. L. Stephens (eds), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 3: Philosophy of Biology. Elsevier Press.
* (2005) 'The Meaning of 'Race': Folk Conceptions and the New Biology of Race', The Journal of Philosophy, 102(2):94-106.
* (2005) 'Institutional sexism', Journal of philosophical research:147-163.
* (2004) 'The Cladistic Race Concept: A Defense', Biology and Philosophy, 19(3):425-442.
* (2004) With Ann E. Cudd. Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1405116609
* (2002) With Milo J. Aukerman. 'The human genome project: a reply to Rosenberg'. Biology and Philosophy, 17(5):673-678.
* (2000) 'Race: Biological reality or social construct?', Philosophy of science, 67 (3):S33-S162.
* (1998) 'A New Perspective on the Race Debate', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 49(2):199-225.
: Reprinted in (2006) E. Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, 3rd Edition, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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