Dear all, This is a reminder that, tomorrow, Dr. Jules Holroyd (Nottingham) will give a talk entitled "Implicit Bias, Responsibility and Control." An abstract is included below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15pm on Tuesday, 18 February, in the *Boys Smith Room* (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena ABSTRACT: Does being influenced by implicit bias reflect badly on an individual? Are such implicit cognitions part of our character and appropriately subject to moral evaluation? We address this question by considering the claim that individuals lack the appropriate kind of control for implicit biases to be considered reflective of 'who the agent is'. Our negative claim is that authors who have addressed this question (Levy, Saul, Glasgow) do not give us reason to suppose that individuals lack control over implicit bias in a way relevant to its moral evaluation. Our positive claim is that individuals have control over the manifestation of implicit biases in a sense relevant to such cognitions being the target of moral evaluation. We draw on and extend Clark's notion of ecological control to show that a) individuals have certain kinds of ecological control in relation to implicit biases; and b) that this kind of control is appropriately related to moral evaluation. Thus the claim that individuals lack control over implicit biases is false, and cannot be used to block the moral evaluation of individuals who manifest them. -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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