In this episode, we speak with Dr. Quayshawn Spencer, Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, about what race is, why he’s a radical racial pluralist, and what this could imply in science and medicine.
(00:00) Our introduction
(11:23) Interview begins
(20:21) Methodology: What are philosophers of race trying to do?
(32:05) From aspiring physician-scientist to philosopher of race
(41:08) Becoming a realist about race
(44:44) Human continental populations and the OMB racial classification scheme
(1:00:43) The national meaning of “race” in US racial discourse
(1:12:35) Why not be a pure social constructionist?
(1:17:04) Implications: racial inequalities
(1:20:59) Implications: diversifying clinical trials
(1:39:46) Pluralizing race talk
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