The rational impermissibility of accepting (some) racial generalizations
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I argue that inferences from highly probabilifying racial generalizations (e.g. believing that Jones is a janitor, on the grounds that most Salvadoreans at the school are janitors) are not solely objectionable because acting on such inferences would be problematic, or they violate a moral norm, but because they violate a distinctively epistemic norm. They involve accepting a proposition when, given the costs of a mistake, one is not adequately justified in doing so. First I sketch an account of...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2018-05-23 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/177011 |
Source: | Synthese |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-018-1809-5 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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