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Implicit Bias, Moods, and Moral ResponsibilityPacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (S1): 53-78. 2017.Are individuals morally responsible for their implicit biases? One reason to think not is that implicit biases are often advertised as unconscious, ‘introspectively inaccessible’ attitudes. However, recent empirical evidence consistently suggests that individuals are aware of their implicit biases, although often in partial and inarticulate ways. Here I explore the implications of this evidence of partial awareness for individuals’ moral responsibility. First, I argue that responsibility com…Read more
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Attributionism and Moral Responsibility for Implicit BiasReview of Philosophy and Psychology 7 (4): 765-786. 2016.Implicit intergroup biases have been shown to impact social behavior in many unsettling ways, from disparities in decisions to “shoot” black and white men in a computer simulation to unequal gender-based evaluations of résumés and CVs. It is a difficult question whether, and in what way, agents are responsible for behaviors affected by implicit biases. I argue that in paradigmatic cases agents are responsible for these behaviors in the sense that the behavior is “attributable” to them. That is, …Read more
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Aristotle and the VirtuesOxford University Press. 2012.
Columbia University
PhD, 2021
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Moral Psychology |