Meanings
- uncountableThe belief that there are distinct human races.
https://philpapers.org/rec/GLABRR "Basic Racial Realism"
5 more examples
While it is true that ignoring accurate scientific results is to willfully abandon the scientific process, those results need to be accurate in the first place, which is where all the race realism arguments fall flat. The conclusion that races are biologically real is simply false, and to continue to test this unequivocally false and already discredited hypothesis is problematic.
2025 February 10, Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall, “Race realism goes both ways”, in History and Philosophy of the Life Scienceshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861371 "Against the Reification of Race in Bioethics: Anti-Racism without Racial Realism"
https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=phil "What ‘Biological Racial Realism’ Should Mean"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josp.12470 "Basic racial realism, social constructionism, and the ordinary concept of race"
https://philarchive.org/archive/KAPRAA "Realism, Antirealism, and Conventionalism about Race"
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of scientific racism.
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