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Philosophy of Race

Gwendalynn Roebke

Background|
I am a second year interdisciplinary PhD student and a proud McNair scholar. 
I did my B.A at CU Boulder in  an Independently Structured major (or a distributed studies track) where I pulled from neuroscience/psych, astrophysics, and philosophy to pursue questions in existentialism given our contemporary advancements in STEAM. The questions I found particularly interesting in my undergrad had to do with agency , identity, and how we break down "the individual". 
 

Quayshawn Spencer

I specialize in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of race.  In philosophy of science, I primarily focus on metaphysical problems in science, such as what is an appropriate way to define "natural kinds."  In philosophy of biology, I primarily focus on metaphysical problems in biology, such as whether biological populations can have fuzzy temporal parts and whether there is any way to group organisms into biologically real subspecies.