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Letters
Letters
Race, Philosophy & Science • Chemical Reaction • Moral Feedback • Language Makes A Difference • God: To Be or Not To Be? • What Is Justification? • Women in Philosophy • Schopenhauer, Bringer of Joy • Hypothetical Dragons
Race, Philosophy & Science
Dear Editor: In her article in Issue 171, Sailee Khurjekar claims that race is culturally constructed rather than an inherent attribute. However, in the book The War on Science (ed. Lawrence Krauss), there’s an essay by Jerry Coyne and Luan Maroja reporting that a broad sample of genes from 3,600 people was examined, from people who self-identified as either African-American, white, Hispanic, or east Asian. Analysis of the sampled DNA showed that the genetic variation was distributed in clusters. The most striking finding was that there was a 99.
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