Implicit bias and philosophy. Volume 2, Moral responsibility, structural injustice, and ethics / edited by Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brownstein, Michael (Michael S.), editor.

Saul, Jennifer Mather, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices.

Metaphysics.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ethics.

Subliminal perception.

Discrimination--Philosophy.

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Moral responsibility, structural injustice, and ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Most people have implicit biases: they evaluate social groups in ways that they are unconscious of or cannot control, and which may run counter to their conscious beliefs and values. This volume explores the themes of moral responsibility in implicit bias, structural injustice in society, and strategies for implicit attitude change.

Contents:

Cover; Implicit Bias and Philosophy: VOLUME 2: Moral Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Ethics; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Contents of Volume 1; Introduction; 1 Part 1: Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias; 2 Part 2: Structural Injustice; 3 Part 3: The Ethics of Implicit Bias: Theory and Practice; Acknowledgements; References; PART 1: Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias; 1.1: Who's Responsible for This?: Moral Responsibility, Externalism, and Knowledge about Implicit Bias; 1 The Cognitive Monster; 2 Holding Ourselves Morally Responsible: Common Practices, Typical Excuses

3 "Textbook" Facts about Implicit Bias4 The Hiring Committee; 5 Taking a Step Back: Externalism and the Evolution of the Epistemic Environment; 6 A Glimpse Ahead: Objections and Open Questions; 7 In Place of a Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 1.2: Alienation and Responsibility; 1 Alienation; 2 A Theory to Accommodate the Data; 3 Wolf 's Burden; 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 1.3: Attributability, Accountability, and Implicit Bias; 1 Introduction; 2 Two Routes to Responsibility; 3 Attributability of Implicit Bias; 4 Accountability for Implicit Bias

5 Accountability Without Attributability6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 1.4: Stereotypes and Prejudices: Whose Responsibility?: Indirect Personal Responsibility for Implicit Biases; 1 Introduction; 2 Stereotypes, Prejudices, and their Harm; 2.1 Stereotypes and prejudices; 2.2 Harmful S&P behavior; 3 Responsibility and Implicit Bias; 4 Taking and Self-Ascribing of Personal Responsibility; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 1.5: Revisionism and Moral Responsibility for Implicit Attitudes; 1 Introduction; 2 Dual Attitudes; 3 Revisionism; 4 Folk and Philosophical Conceptions

5 Revisions5.1 Conscious knowledge and conscious intentions; 5.2 "Real self" theories; 5.3 The notion of control; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; PART 2: Structural Injustice; 2.1: The Too Minimal Political, Moral, and Civic Dimension of Claude Steele's "Stereotype Threat" Paradigm; 1 What are Stereotypes?: Distinguishing Valid from Invalid Generalizations and Associations; 2 Imprecision in Content of Stereotypes; 3 The Epistemic, Moral, and Civic Harms of Stereotypes and Stereotyping

4 Failure to Promote and Draw on Group Consciousness among Stereotype Threatened Groups in Stereotype Threat Research5 Role of Accurate Generalizations in Diagnosing and Correcting for Unjust Disparities; 6 How Stereotypes Support and are Supported by Unjust Social Structures and Systems; 7 Problems with Steele's "Everyone is Subject to Stereotype Threat" Strategy; 8 Internalized Stereotyping and Systemic Injustice; 9 The Implausibility of Steele's View on Internalized Stereotyping; 10 Conclusion; References; 2.2: Reducing Racial Bias: Attitudinal and Institutional Change; 1 Introduction

2 Bias as Cause

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-182074-1

0-19-107882-4