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
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.
... 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*
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