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  1. Race, ethnicity and the limitations of identity politics.David Pilgrim - 2022 - Journal of Critical Realism 22 (2):240-255.
    This paper argues that identity politics is impeding respectful deliberative democracy. Its starting point is an analysis by Loïc Wacquant which problematizes the relationship between race and ethnicity. Wacquant's discussion covers the biological and social ontology of race, the importance of the culture of individualism in the USA and the general limitations of identity politics. I argue that those limitations are the result of restricting the discussion of race to only two of the four planes of social being, namely the (...)
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  • How Language and Human Altruism Evolved Hand in Hand — The Backchannel Hypothesis.Till Nikolaus von Heiseler - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    This paper contributes to two debates: the debate about language evolution and the debate about the foundations of human collaboration. While both cooperation and language may give the impression of being adaptations that evolved for the “good of the group,” it is well established that the evolution of complex traits cannot be a direct result of group selection. In this paper I suggest how this tension can be solved: both language and cooperation evolved in a unique two-level evolutionary system which (...)
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