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What's Wrong with Stereotyping? offers a groundbreaking and accessibly written philosophical account of the ethics of stereotyping. The book advances a complex and often surprising notion of what stereotyping is, and when and why it is wrongful.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: A Starting Point for Theorizing: What is a Stereotype? What is Stereotyping?
- 2: To Stereotype Is to Discriminate
- 3: Lived Experience and the Wrongs of Stereotyping
- 4: Failing to Treat Persons as Individuals
- 5: Prejudice and the Problem of Statistical Stereotyping
- 6: Disrespect and Harm
- 7: Freedom and Failing to Treat Persons as Equals
- 8: Radical Pluralism A New Theory of Wrongful Stereotyping
About the author
Erin Beeghly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her research lies at the intersection of ethics, social epistemology, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology. She and Alex Madva are co-editors of the first philosophical introduction to implicit bias:
An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge, 2020). Beeghly's research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, National Humanities Center, the AAUW, and Townsend Center for Humanities at Berkeley. Beeghly received a PhD from UC Berkeley in 2014, a BA in PPE from the University of Oxford in 2006, and a BA in History from UC Berkeley in 2004.
Summary
What's Wrong with Stereotyping? offers a groundbreaking and accessibly written philosophical account of the ethics of stereotyping. The book advances a complex and often surprising notion of what stereotyping is, and when and why it is wrongful.
