La cientifización de la raza: el carácter pseudocientífico de las disciplinas
Resumen La naturalización de la raza y los intentos por parte de ciertas disciplinas científicas de elaborar una jerarquización racial forman parte de la historia de la ciencia. En este artículo se analizan disciplinas que pertenecen al denominado “racismo científico” para justificar su carácter pseudocientífico tanto desde una perspectiva diacrónica como desde una perspectiva sincrónica, prestando especial atención a la utilización que en ellas se hace de un concepto esencialista de raza. En primer lugar, se abordan criterios para identificar las pseudociencias, así como rasgos que estas presentan. A continuación, se someten a análisis las disciplinas objeto de estudio, incidiendo en los momentos de transición de unas a otras. Tras ello se concluye que las disciplinas estudiadas fueron afectadas por prejuicios y una fuerte ideología racial que repercuten directamente en su estatus pseudocientífico.
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Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded). Nueva York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Gregory, Jane y Miller, Steven (1998). Science in Public: Communication, Culture and Credibility. Cambridge: Basic Books.
Hansson, Sven O. (2013). Defining Pseudoscience and Science. En M. Pigliucci y M. Boudry (Eds.), Philosophy of Pseudoscience (pp. 61-77). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Jahoda, Gustav (2009). Intra-European Racism in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology. History and Anthropology, 20(1), 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757200802654258
Kaufman, Matthew H. (1998). The Edinburgh Phrenological Debate of 1823 Held in the Royal Medical Society. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 11(4), 377-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0911-6044(98)00025-6
Lapouge, Georges Vacher de (1899). L'Aryen: Son Role Social. París: Albert Fontemoing.
Lapouge, Georges Vacher de (1909). Race et Milieu Social : Essais d'Anthroposociologie. Paris: Marcel Riviére.
Laudan, Larry (1983). The Demise of the Demarcation Problem. En R. S. Cohen y L. Laudan (Eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (vol. 76). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7055-7_6
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Lombroso, Cesare (1911). Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. London: William Heinemann.
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Sakalauskait?-Juodeikien?, Egl?, Eling, Paul y Finger, Stanley (2017). The reception of Gall's organology in early-nineteenth-century Vilnius. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 26(4), 385-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2017.1332561
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