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The Philosophy of Race in the Nineteenth Century

2022· book-chapter· en· W4309169579 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Robert Bernasconi

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Philosophy of Race · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRace (biology)HegelianismQuarter (Canadian coin)MillPhilosophy of historyNatural historyHistoryNatural philosophyPhilosophySociologyGender studiesEpistemologyArchaeologyBiologyEcology

Abstract

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Abstract Although toward the end of the eighteenth century Immanuel Kant had introduced a conception of race based on hereditary characteristics, both natural and moral, the dominant conception of race for much of the nineteenth century was based in readings of history. Racial differences were visible in history, and to a large extent they were understood to determine history. This tendency is illustrated with reference to Hegel and Gobineau. For much of the century the debate between monogenists and polygenists was at the forefront of the discussion of race, but in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, race mixing or miscegenation, which was increasingly seen as a biological threat, became the center of attention. The philosophers discussed in this chapter include John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.978
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.009
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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