Psychological research on implicit bias is relatively recent
but a host of metaphysical, epistemological and ethical questions about implicit bias are worth addessing
The psychological literature usually describes implicit attitudes (or biases) as “associations” these associations these personality components are “bundled” together or “cluster” in such a way that when an implicitly biased person sees the 'other' face in a particular context, for example, the agent’s representation will automatically activate particular feelings and behaviors.
The failure to process negation is a challenge for any belief-based account of implicit attitudes
Implicit attitudes are sui generis (stand alone) states that are “patchy biased endorsements”. What distinguishes patchy endorsements from ordinary mental states like beliefs is that they fail to respond to the semantic contents ie the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings.of other mental states in a systematic way,
One version of the generic belief interpretation claims that implicit biases are better understood as cognitive “schemas” than as evaluative attitudes. Schemas are clusters of culturally shared concepts and beliefs.
The term “mother”, for example, invokes a schema that attributes a collection of attributes to the person so labelled (Haslanger 2013). Schemas are distinct from attitudes in the psychological sense in that they are “coldly” cognitive (Valian 2005)
Generics involve inferences to dispositions, for example, pitbull dog are dangerous, black men are athletic, Muslims are terrorists' thesr are , generic statements about supposed properties and will usually be judged true if and only if some members of the kind possess the property and other members of the kind are judged to be disposed to possess it.
but a host of metaphysical, epistemological and ethical questions about implicit bias are worth addessing
The psychological literature usually describes implicit attitudes (or biases) as “associations” these associations these personality components are “bundled” together or “cluster” in such a way that when an implicitly biased person sees the 'other' face in a particular context, for example, the agent’s representation will automatically activate particular feelings and behaviors.
The failure to process negation is a challenge for any belief-based account of implicit attitudes
Implicit attitudes are sui generis (stand alone) states that are “patchy biased endorsements”. What distinguishes patchy endorsements from ordinary mental states like beliefs is that they fail to respond to the semantic contents ie the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings.of other mental states in a systematic way,
One version of the generic belief interpretation claims that implicit biases are better understood as cognitive “schemas” than as evaluative attitudes. Schemas are clusters of culturally shared concepts and beliefs.
The term “mother”, for example, invokes a schema that attributes a collection of attributes to the person so labelled (Haslanger 2013). Schemas are distinct from attitudes in the psychological sense in that they are “coldly” cognitive (Valian 2005)
Generics involve inferences to dispositions, for example, pitbull dog are dangerous, black men are athletic, Muslims are terrorists' thesr are , generic statements about supposed properties and will usually be judged true if and only if some members of the kind possess the property and other members of the kind are judged to be disposed to possess it.
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