1. Introduction
2. Human kinds for knowledge and as levers for change
3. Existing approaches to human kinds
4. Historical Kinds
5. Gender as a historical kind: A plea for reclassification
6. What is culture and how is it realized?
7. How historical kinds achieve a moral standing
8. Conclusion: The key contributions of human historical kinds.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Marion Godman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark and an Affiliated Scholar of the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Cambridge University, UK. She is currently a recipient of a Sapere Aude research leader grant examining what a theory of human kinds (or groups) can tell us about the basis for group rights.
