How Stereotypes Deceive Us

This book investigates the various factors that determine whether an act of stereotyping increases or decreases the chance of an accurate judgement being made. It challenges the assumption that false or inaccurate cognitions have no epistemic value.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Defining Stereotypes and Stereotyping


• 3: The Multiple Ways Stereotypes Deceive Us


• 4: False Social Attitudes, their Value and the Implications for the Ethics of Stereotyping


• 5: Where Ethical and Epistemic Demands Meet: Learning from the Role of Stereotyping in Medicine


• 6: Stereotyping, Misperception and Disclosure of Social Identity: Mental Health and Beyond


• 7: Stereotypes and Epistemic Value


• 8: Evaluative Dispositionalism


• 9: Conclusion

About the author

Katherine Puddifoot obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2012. She held lecturing positions at the University of Bristol and University of Glasgow before completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Birmingham from 2015 to 2018 on the ERC-funded project PERFECT. She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on stereotyping, implicit bias, memory biases, and epistemic injustice.

Summary

This book investigates the various factors that determine whether an act of stereotyping increases or decreases the chance of an accurate judgement being made. It challenges the assumption that false or inaccurate cognitions have no epistemic value.

Additional text

Puddifoot's framework for evaluating stereotyping is clever and compelling.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Puddifoot, Katherine (Assistant Professor Puddifoot
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192845559
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284555-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge