Distinguished Lecture: Social structure, narrative and explanation
Recent work on social injustice has focused on implicit bias as an important factor in explaining persistent injustice in spite of achievements on civil rights. In this paper, I argue that because of its individualism, implicit bias explanation, taken alone, is inadequate to explain ongoing injustic...
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| description | Recent work on social injustice has focused on implicit bias as an important factor in explaining persistent injustice in spite of achievements on civil rights. In this paper, I argue that because of its individualism, implicit bias explanation, taken alone, is inadequate to explain ongoing injustice; and, more importantly, it fails to call attention to what is morally at stake. An adequate account of how implicit bias functions must situate it within a broader theory of social structures and structural injustice; changing structures is often a precondition for changing patterns of thought and action and is certainly required for durable change. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/970382022-09-27T21:42:22Z Distinguished Lecture: Social structure, narrative and explanation Haslanger, Sally Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Haslanger, Sally Haslanger, Sally Recent work on social injustice has focused on implicit bias as an important factor in explaining persistent injustice in spite of achievements on civil rights. In this paper, I argue that because of its individualism, implicit bias explanation, taken alone, is inadequate to explain ongoing injustice; and, more importantly, it fails to call attention to what is morally at stake. An adequate account of how implicit bias functions must situate it within a broader theory of social structures and structural injustice; changing structures is often a precondition for changing patterns of thought and action and is certainly required for durable change. 2015-05-20T15:33:15Z 2015-05-20T15:33:15Z 2015-03 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0045-5091 1911-0820 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97038 Haslanger, Sally. “Distinguished Lecture: Social Structure, Narrative and Explanation.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 1–15. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2015.1019176 Canadian Journal of Philosophy Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press Haslanger |
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