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Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency.

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Mallon's book is a useful guide for readers with an interest in metaphysics and little familiarity with recent writing on race. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews His book has much to recommend it. It is careful, scholarly, clear and tackles important issues...To sum up, The Construction of Human Kinds is a valuable addition to the literature. The book will be accessible to readers with a good undergraduate background in philosophy, and should be read by philosophers who want to understand the metaphysics and semantics of socially constructed kinds. --Metapsychology Online Reviews

Mallon's book is a useful guide for readers with an interest in metaphysics and little familiarity with recent writing on race. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Ron Mallon (Ph.D. Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the PNP Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is at the intersection of the philosophy of psychology and social theory.

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