Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Political Correctness in Philosophy

Hermanson, Sean

doi:10.3390/philosophies2020012

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“…). Prominent philosophers have questioned the validity of research on implicit social cognition altogether (e.g., Buckwalter ; Hermanson ,b, ; Machery , ,b; Yao and Reis‐Dennis n.d.). Edouard Machery (), for example, describes an ongoing ‘rescue mission’ within the field, implying that the relevant research is in peril of being discredited.…”

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Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective

Brownstein

Madva

Gawronski

2020

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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What is the status of research on implicit bias? In light of meta‐analyses revealing ostensibly low average correlations between implicit measures and behavior, as well as various other psychometric concerns, criticism has become ubiquitous. We argue that while there are significant challenges and ample room for improvement, research on the causes, psychological properties, and behavioral effects of implicit bias continues to deserve a role in the sciences of the mind as well as in efforts to understand, and ultimately combat, discrimination and inequality.

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Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective

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Madva

Gawronski

2020

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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“…After examining other studies, Hermanson concludes that philosophers writing about implicit bias sometimes endorse low evidentiary standards and omit reservations about empirical research. He suggests that this might be because of their shared liberal “commitment to progressive reforms such as affirmative action initiatives” (Hermanson, , p. 12).…”

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“…For instance, they tend to cite Steinpreis, Anders and Ritzke's () study as showing that a male as opposed to female name on an applicant's CV makes the assessor rate the application more positively (Antony, , p. 157; Haslanger, , p. 213; Saul, , p. 245). However, upon scrutinising the study, Hermanson () found that the sample sizes of respondents for female CV and male CV were small, and the “discrepancy in responses was just at the fringes of the margin of error” (Hermanson, , p. 6). He points out too that Steinpreis et al detected no gendered effects for tenure decisions.…”

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Implicit bias, ideological bias, and epistemic risks in philosophy

Peters

2018

Mind & Language

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It has been argued that implicit biases are operative in philosophy and lead to significant epistemic costs in the field. Philosophers working on this issue have focused mainly on implicit gender and race biases. They have overlooked ideological bias, which targets political orientations. Psychologists have found ideological bias in their field and have argued that it has negative epistemic effects on scientific research. I relate this debate to the field of philosophy and argue that if, as some studies suggest, the same bias also exists in philosophy then it will lead to hitherto unrecognised epistemic hazards in the field. Furthermore, the bias is epistemically different from the more familiar biases in respects that are important for epistemology, ethics, and metaphilosophy.

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“…While the MAA prepared these guidelines for guiding selection of prize recipients, they explicitly acknowledge their relevance to committee decisions of all sorts. Hermanson (2017) cites Crouch and Schwartzmann (2012) as crediting Haslanger (2008) with bringing the issue of implicit bias to the attention of the philosophical community. Hermanson's article also offers an example of a broader trend within the discipline, as he himself is skeptical that implicit bias plays any explanatory role whatsoever in the underrepresentation of women in the philosophy.…”

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Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

Berenstain¹

2018

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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The underrepresentation of women, people of color, and especially women of colorand the corresponding overrepresentation of white men-is more pronounced in philosophy than in many of the sciences. I suggest that part of the explanation for this lies in the role played by the idealized rational self, a concept that is relatively influential in philosophy but rarely employed in the sciences. The idealized rational self models the mind as consistent, unified, rationally transcendent, and introspectively transparent. I hypothesize that acceptance of the idealized rational self leads philosophers to underestimate the influence of implicit bias on their own judgments and prevents them from enacting the reforms necessary to minimize the effects of implicit bias on institutional decision-making procedures. I consider recent experiments in social psychology that suggest that an increased sense of one's own objectivity leads to greater reliance on bias in hiring scenarios, and I hypothesize how these results might be applied to philosophers' evaluative judgments. I discuss ways that the idealized rational self is susceptible to broader critiques of ideal theory, and I consider some of the ways that the picture functions as a tool of active ignorance and color-evasive racism.

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Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Political Correctness in Philosophy

Cited by 9 publications

References 75 publications

Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective

Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective

Implicit bias, ideological bias, and epistemic risks in philosophy

Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

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