Kinds Before Their Concepts: Practical Anchoring and Conceptual Opacity in the Historiography of Race
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Published online on May 16, 2026
Abstract
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Many social kinds are opaque in that they may be explanatorily useful without depending upon propositional attitudes directed at them. This article asks how historians can account for the emergence of opaque social kinds in advance of their recognition by ...
Many social kinds are opaque in that they may be explanatorily useful without depending upon propositional attitudes directed at them. This article asks how historians can account for the emergence of opaque social kinds in advance of their recognition by ...