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In 2014 I was awarded my PhD in philosophy by the University of Sydney. In 2015 I began a three year Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF). My position at Macquarie was made ongoing in 2016. I finished my MQRF in 2018, and in 2019 I began another three year research project, supported by a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA).
My current focus is on philosophy of race. I am interested in the following questions. What is race? Is race biologically real, socially real, or not real at all? If there are no races, what are there? What is the relationship between race, racism, ethnicity and ethnocentrism? Can philosophy of language help us to define these terms? What role can the history of the race concept play in answering these questions?
I also have an ongoing interest in the relationship between proximate and evolutionary forms of explanation. I am especially interested in conflations and confusions surrounding 'how' and 'why' explanations, and how they play out in work at the intersection of biology and psychology.
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Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kennett, J. (Chief Investigator), Rogers, W. (Chief Investigator), Menary, R. (Chief Investigator), Meyerson, D. (Chief Investigator), Atkin, A. (Chief Investigator), Bernal-Pulido, C. (Chief Investigator), Deranty, J.-P. (Chief Investigator), Downey, G. (Chief Investigator), Formosa, P. (Chief Investigator), Heersmink, R. (Chief Investigator), Hochman, A. (Chief Investigator), Hutchison, K. (Chief Investigator), Johnson, J. (Chief Investigator), Klein, C. (Chief Investigator), Levy, N. (Chief Investigator), Lotz, M. (Chief Investigator), MacDermott, T. (Chief Investigator), Olson, M. (Chief Investigator), Rossmanith, K. (Chief Investigator), Schier, E. (Chief Investigator), Sinnerbrink, R. (Chief Investigator), Smith, N. (Chief Investigator), Stotz, K. (Chief Investigator), Sutton, J. (Chief Investigator) & White, K. (Chief Investigator)
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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What is this thing called race?
Hochman, A. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Stotz, K. (Sponsor)
1/02/15 → …
Project: Research
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Macquarie University Centre for Agency Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C. (Primary Chief Investigator), Rogers, W. (Centre Deputy Director), Meyerson, D. (Centre Member), Kennett, J. (Centre Member), Menary, R. (Centre Member), Barrow, A. (Centre Member), Bernal-Pulido, C. (Centre Member), Deranty, J.-P. (Centre Member), Downey, G. (Centre Member), Faulkner, J. (Centre Member), Formosa, P. (Centre Member), Hochman, A. (Centre Member), Hutchison, K. (Centre Member), Johnson, J. (Centre Member), Levy, N. (Centre Member), Lipworth, W. (Centre Member), Lotz, M. (Centre Member), Pugliese, J. (Centre Member), Ross, R. (Centre Member), Rossmanith, K. (Centre Member), Schier, E. (Centre Member), Sinnerbrink, R. (Centre Member), Smith, N. (Centre Member), Sorial, S. (Centre Member), Sutton, J. (Centre Member), Voyce, M. (Centre Member), Gleeson, K. (Centre Member) & MacDermott, T. (Centre Member)
1/01/20 → 1/01/22
Project: Research
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Social Constructionism about Race, Deconstructed
Hochman, A. (Primary Chief Investigator)
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Other
Research Outputs
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The real reason you cannot be transracial
Hochman, A., 3 May 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Social Philosophy. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Can social racial realism pass? Problems with 'racial passing' as an analytic category
Hochman, A., 20 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Philosophical Quarterly. 22 p., pqaf064.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search
Hochman, A., Jan 2025, In: Ethics. 135, 2, p. 366-370 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
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The race illusion: on the reality of racialization and the myth of race
Hochman, A., 2025, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Social kind vs. conferralist approaches to social ontology: 'race' as a case study
Hochman, A., 24 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Inquiry (United Kingdom). 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)