Thinking about populations and races in time.
Thinking about populations and races in time.
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及时思考人口和种族。
DOI：
10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.001
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2015
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R. Millstein
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R. Millstein
生物学家和哲学家提出了不同的生物种族概念。也就是说，他们为种族的生物学相关性提供了不同的候选者;例如，种族可能是亚种，分支，谱系，生态型或遗传簇。这些建议中有一点很引人注目，那就是它们都依赖于人口的概念。事实上，一些作者明确地从人口的角度来描述种族。然而，把人口的概念纳入种族的概念会引起三个难题，都与时间有关。在本文中，我通过引入一些简单的假设来扩展因果相互作用论的人口概念（CIPC），这些假设是关于如何通过时间来理解人口的。这些假设有助于阐明这三个难题，并在此过程中表明，如果我们想从人口的角度来理解种族，我们将需要修改我们的种族概念。
Biologists and philosophers have offered differing concepts ofbiological race. That is, they have offered different candidates for what a biological correlate of race might be; for example, races might be subspecies, clades, lineages, ecotypes, or genetic clusters. One thing that is striking about each of these proposals is that they all depend on a concept ofpopulation. Indeed, some authors have explicitly characterized races in terms of populations. However, including the concept of population into concepts of race raises three puzzles, all having to do withtime. In this paper, I extend the causal interactionist population concept (CIPC) by introducing some simple assumptions about how to understand populations through time. These assumptions help to shed light on the three puzzles, and in the process show that if we want to understand races in terms of populations, we will need to revise our concept(s) of race.