James Africanus Beale Horton on Naturalism, Baconianism, and Race Science in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology

In this paper I show that James Africanus Beale Horton launched an internal critique of race science as it developed in the hands of Robert Knox, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt. The latter three held an inductivist Baconian conception of science. Horton shows that their practices as scientists and natura...

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Main Author: Zeyad El Nabolsy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2025-01-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/article/id/2501/
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