Bias: A Philosophical Study Kelly Thomas
Bias: A Philosophical Study Kelly Thomas Bias seems to be everywhere. Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions…
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Bias: A Philosophical Study Kelly Thomas
Bias seems to be everywhere. Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people.
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. We tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and more favorably than the evidence warrants. 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