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Bias, Structure and Injustice

Today's post is provided by Robin Zheng. In this post she introduces her paper " Bias, Structure and Injustice: A reply to Haslangar ", published in Feminist Philosophical Quarterly. Robin Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. Her research focuses on issues of moral responsibility and structural injustice, along with other topics in ethics, moral psychology, feminist and social philosophy, and philosophy of race.  Some of her other works on topics related to this post include “ Attributability, Accountability, and Implicit Bias ” in Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Volume 2 (eds. Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul), “ A Job for Philosophers: Causality, Responsibility, and Explaining Social Inequality ” in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, and “ What is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice ” (forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice). For more information, ...

Structure-to-Function Mappings in the Cognitive Sciences

Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto. He specializes in general issues in the philosophy of science (especially, natural kinds and reductionism) and philosophy of cognitive science (especially, innateness, concepts, and domain specificity). His book, Natural Categories and Human Kinds, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, and he has recently been working on cognitive and social ontology. If a sudden interest in taxonomy is indicative of a crisis in a scientific field, then the cognitive sciences may be in a current state of crisis. Psychologists, neuroscientists, and researchers in related disciplines have recently devoted increasing attention to the ways in which their respective disciplines classify and categorize their objects of study. Many of these researchers consider themselves--rightly in my opinion--engaged in the effort to uncover our “cognitive ontology”. Ever since ...