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Bias - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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Bias - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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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.
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