Table of Contents

Preface
1: Prejudice from an epistemological point of view
2: The psychology of stereotypes
3: From psychology to philosophy: the case for non-ideal epistemology
4: The epistemology of prejudice acquisition
5: The epistemology of prejudice maintenance
6: Evidential preemption
7: Common ground: the peculiar epistemology of culturally normal belief
8: Automated risk assessment in the criminal justice process: a case of algorithmic bias ?
9: Moral constraints on belief?
10: A better approach: moral responsibility despite epistemic blamelessness
References

About the Author

Endre Begby received his MA degree from the University of Oslo and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. His areas of specialization include epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, as well as social and political philosophy.

Reviews

... this book provides lucid and thought-provoking descriptions of how people may acquire prejudiced beliefs in fraught socio epistemological environments.
*Katherine Puddifoot, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, England, Metascience*

The author's prose is clear, and he works through a great deal of difficult material in short compass. Philosophers, policymakers, and students will all profit from reading this book.
*B. T. Hutchinson, CHOICE*

This is a well-written and thought-provoking book. It is both philosophically sophisticated and relatively accessible. Advanced students with some background in relevant areas should have no trouble following the broad outline of the argument. Researchers interested in the topics it covers (and it covers quite a few) will gain a lot from reading it. Some of them will find things to disagree with, but that is only to be expected. All told, this is a sophisticated and nuanced account of the epistemology and ethics of prejudice and prejudiced belief.
*Robin McKenna, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*

...this is what makes Begby's work so informative and such a landmark in non-ideal epistemology
*Guy Lancaster, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books*

And this is what makes Begby's work so informative and such a landmark in non-ideal epistemology, for by demonstrating how prejudice accords with our normal cognitive operations, it centers the humanity of all involved, even those perpetrators of so much so-called "inhumanity."
*Guy Lancaster, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books*

This book provides lucid and thought provoking descriptions of how people may acquire prejudiced beliefs in fraught socio-epistemological environments.
*Katherine Puddifoot, Metascience*

The book does an excellent job motivating inquiry into what a system of epistemic norms for agents with our specific cognitive and situational limitations would look like.
*Renée Jorgensen, Ethics*