Bias: A Philosophical Study 1st edition Thomas Kelly

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• ISBN 10: 0192654616
• ISBN 13: 9780192654618
• Author:Thomas Kelly

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.

Table contents:

Part I: Conceptual Fundamentals
1:Diversity, Relativity, Etc.
2:Pluralism and Priority
Part II: Bias and Norms
3:The Norm-Theoretic Account of Bias
4:The Bias Blind Spot and the Biases of Introspection
5:Biased People
6:Norms of Objectivity
7:Symmetry and Bias Attributions
Part III: Knowledge
8:Bias and Knowledge
9:Knowledge, Skepticism, and Reliability
10:Bias Attributions and the Epistemology of Disagreement
11:Main Themes and Conclusions

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