Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias

In this chapter, we explore whether agents have an epistemic duty to eradicate implicit bias. Recent research shows that implicit biases are widespread and they have a wide variety of epistemic effects on our doxastic attitudes. First, we offer some examples and features of implicit biases. Second, we clarify what it means to have an epistemic duty, and discuss the kind of epistemic duties we might have regarding implicit bias. Third, we argue that we have an epistemic duty to eradicate implicit biases that have negative epistemic impact. Finally, we defend this view against the objection that we lack the relevant control over implicit bias that’s required for such a duty. We argue that we have a kind of reflective control over the implicit biases that we are duty-bound to eradicate. And since, as we show, we have this control over a wide variety of implicit biases, there are a lot of implicit biases that we have epistemic duties to eradicate

Ways of thinking about ways of being

Monism about being says that there is one way to be. Pluralism about being says that there are many ways to be. Recently, Trenton Merricks and David Builes have offered arguments against Pluralism. In this paper, I show how Pluralists who appeal to the relative naturalness of quantifiers can respond to these arguments

Faith, Belief, and Control

In this paper, I solve a puzzle generated by three conflicting claims about the relationship between faith, belief, and control: according to the Identity Thesis, faith is a type of belief, and according to Fideistic Voluntarism, we sometimes have control over whether or not we have faith, but according to Doxastic Involuntarism, we never have control over what we believe. To solve the puzzle, I argue that the Identity Thesis is true, but that either Fideistic Voluntarism or Doxastic Voluntarism is false, depending on how we understand "control." I distinguish two notions of control: direct intention-based control and indirect reflective control. I argue that though we have direct intention-based control over neither belief nor faith, we have indirect reflective control over each of them. Moreover, indirect reflective control helps explain how we can be held accountable for each

Women\u27s Work: Finding New Meaning Through a Feminist Concept of Unionization

In the first section I examine the traditional structures used to change the workplace to adapt to changing societal demands. I address what these structures have accomplished and the limitations of these structures in dealing with the problems endemic in women\u27s work. Secondly I address why women\u27s needs in the workforce should be confronted differently than they have been in the past. And lastly, I assert that by combining traditional structures with a clearer focus on women\u27s needs, new concepts of reform will emerge to legitimate women\u27s work experiences

A Possible-Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer

The puzzle of petitionary prayer: if we ask for the best thing, God was already going to do it, and if we ask for something that's not the best, God's not going to grant our request. In this paper, we give a new solution to the puzzle

Women\u27s Work: Finding New Meaning Through a Feminist Concept of Unionization

In the first section I examine the traditional structures used to change the workplace to adapt to changing societal demands. I address what these structures have accomplished and the limitations of these structures in dealing with the problems endemic in women\u27s work. Secondly I address why women\u27s needs in the workforce should be confronted differently than they have been in the past. And lastly, I assert that by combining traditional structures with a clearer focus on women\u27s needs, new concepts of reform will emerge to legitimate women\u27s work experiences