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  title info:
    title: Bias
    sub title: a philosophical study
  name:
    name part: Kelly, Thomas
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages)
  abstract: Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people. Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. We tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and more favorably than the evidence warrants. But what is it, exactly, for a person or thing to be biased? In Bias: A Philosophical Study, Thomas Kelly explores a number of foundational questions about the nature of bias and our practices of attributing it. He develops a general framework for thinking about bias, the norm theoretic account, and shows how that framework illuminates much that we say and think about bias in both everyday life and the sciences. He argues provocatively that both morality and rationality sometimes require us to be biased; that groups of people can be biased even if none of their members are; that we are often rationally required to believe that those who disagree with us are biased, even if we know absolutely nothing about why they believe as they do or about their psychologies; and that whether someone counts as biased is often a relative matter. He defends the possibility of what he calls 'biased knowing' and argues that the phenomenon has significant implications for both philosophical methodology and scepticism. A central aim of the book is to expand the range of issues that have thus far been considered under the heading 'the philosophy of bias' by putting new theoretical questions on the table and proposing bold answers that can serve as starting points for future inquiry.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. A Familiar Phenomenon -- 2. The Philosophy of Bias: Expanding the Playing Field -- 3. Apology -- I . CONCEPTUAL FUNDAMENTALS -- 1. Diversity, Relativity, Etc. -- 1. Diversity -- 2. Relativity -- 3. Directionality -- 4. Bias about Bias -- 5. Biased Representation -- 6. Parts and Wholes -- 2. Pluralism and Priority -- 1. Explanatory Priority -- 2. Are People (Ever) the Fundamental Carriers of Bias? -- 3. Processes and Outcomes -- 4. Unbiased Outcomes from Biased Processes? -- 5. Biased Outcomes from Unbiased Processes? -- 6. Pluralism -- II. BIAS AND NORMS -- 3. The Norm-Theoretic Account of Bias -- 1. The Diversity of Norms -- 2. Disagreement -- 3. The Perspectival Character of Bias Attributions -- 4. When Norms Conflict -- 4. The Bias Blind Spot and the Biases of Introspection -- 1. The Introspection Illusion as a Source of the Bias Blind Spot -- 2. Why We're More Likely to See People as Biased When They Disagree with Us -- 3. Is It a Contingent Fact That Introspection is an Unreliable Way of Telling Whether You're Biased? -- 4. How the Perspectival Account Explains the Bias Blind Spot, as Well as the Biases of Introspection -- 5. Against "Naïve Realism", For Inevitability -- 5. Biased People -- 1. Biases as Dispositions -- 2. Bias as a Thick Evaluative Concept -- 3. Biased Believers, Biased Agents -- 4. Biased Agents, Unreliable Agents -- 5. Overcompensation -- 6. Norms of Objectivity -- 1. Some Varieties -- 2. Constitutive Norms of Objectivity -- 3. Following the Argument Wherever It Leads -- 7. Symmetry and Bias Attributions -- 1. Two Challenges -- 2. Norms without Bias? -- 3. Symmetry -- 4. Bias without Norms? -- 5. Pejorative vs. Non-Pejorative Attributions of Bias -- I I I . BIAS AND KNOWLEDGE -- 8. Bias and Knowledge -- 1. Biased Knowing -- 2. Can Biased Beliefs Be Knowledge? -- 3. Are Biases Essential to Knowing? -- 4. Knowledge and Symmetry -- 5. How and When Bias Excludes Knowledge: A Proposal -- 9. Knowledge, Skepticism, and Reliability…
  note: Thomas Kelly.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: Social
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: HN90.S6 .K45 2022
  classification: 303.3/85
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    title info:
      title: Bias
    name:
      name part: Kelly, Thomas.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1330195752
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 221114
    record change date: 20260318164723.7
    record identifier: in00005697478
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng