Implicit bias and philosophy. Volume 1, Metaphysics and epistemology / 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.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Metaphysics and epistemology

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Most people show unconscious bias in their evaluations of social groups, in ways that may run counter to their conscious beliefs. This volume addresses key metaphysical and epistemological questions about implicit bias, including its effect on scientific research, gender stereotypes in philosophy, and the role of heuristics in biased reasoning.

Contents:

Cover; Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology: Volume 1; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Contents of Volume 2; Introduction; 1 Implicit Attitudes; 2 Part 1: The Nature of Implicit Attitudes, Implicit Bias, and Stereotype Threat; 3 Part 2: Skepticism, Social Knowledge, and Rationality; Acknowledgements; References; PART 1: The Nature of Implicit Attitudes, Implicit Bias, and Stereotype Threat; 1.1: Playing Double: Implicit Bias, Dual Levels, and Self-Control; 1 Implicit Bias; 1.1 Implicit bias in real life; 1.2 Implicit bias as belief-based; 1.3 Beliefs versus attitudes

2 Dual Levels2.1 Playing double; 2.2 Skepticism about explicit belief; 2.3 Explicit belief as commitment; 2.4 Dual levels and dual processes; 3 Self-Control; 3.1 Escaping bias; 3.2 Explicit belief and action; 3.3 Conditions for override; 3.4 Some predictions; 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 1.2: Implicit Bias, Reinforcement Learning, and Scaffolded Moral Cognition; 1 The Dual-System Hypothesis; 2 Three Kinds of System; 2.1 Pavlovian learning and decision-making; 2.2 Model-free learning and decision-making; 2.3 Looking forward, and model-based decisions

3 A Plausible Architecture for Implicit Bias4 Three Types of Imagination; 4.1 Just use your imagination; 4.2 Niche construction and prefigurative imagination; Acknowledgments; References; 1.3: The Heterogeneity of Implicit Bias; 1 The Disparate Phenomena called 'Implicit Bias'; 2 The Usefulness of an Expansive Concept; 3 Implicit Processes and Different Kinds of Implicit Association; 3.1 Biases behaving differently: two kinds of heterogeneity; 3.2 Distinct associations with distinct behavioural influence; 3.2.1 DISTINCT ASSOCIATIONS; 3.2.2 DISTINCT INFLUENCES ON BEHAVIOUR

3.2.3 A DIMENSION OF HETEROGENEITY: SEMANTIC AND AFFECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS?3.3 Summary; 4 Implications of the Heterogeneity of Implicit Bias; 4.1 Avoiding misleading generalizations, specific normative recommendations; 4.2 Four recommendations; References; 1.4: De-Freuding Implicit Attitudes; 1 The Freudian Picture of Attitudes; 1.1 What is an attitude?; 1.2 Implicit and explicit attitudes; 1.3 A familiar picture; 2 The Trait Picture of Attitudes; 2.1 What is a trait?; 2.2 Attitudes are traits; 2.3 Quid of explicit and implicit attitudes?; 3 An Argument for the Trait Picture of Attitudes

3.1 Low correlations between indirect measures3.2 Variation in the correlations between indirect measures; 3.3 Variation in the indirect measures of attitudes; 3.4 The low predictive validity of indirect measures; 3.5 Upshot; 4 Objections and Responses; 4.1 Traits are not useful posits in psychology; 4.2 Is a science of attitudes possible?; 4.3 Traits and mental states; 4.4 Implicit and explicit traits?; 4.5 Ambivalent attitudes?; 4.6 Impact on the psychology of attitudes?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 1.5: Stereotype Threat and Persons; 1 What Is Stereotype Threat?

2 Subpersonalism about Stereotype Threat

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

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

ISBN:

0-19-178169-X

0-19-102221-7