Distinguished Lecture: Social structure, narrative and explanation
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Haslanger, Sally
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Recent work on social injustice has focused on implicit bias as an important factor in explaining persistent injustice in spite of achievements on civil rights. In this paper, I argue that because of its individualism, implicit bias explanation, taken alone, is inadequate to explain ongoing injustice; and, more importantly, it fails to call attention to what is morally at stake. An adequate account of how implicit bias functions must situate it within a broader theory of social structures and structural injustice; changing structures is often a precondition for changing patterns of thought and action and is certainly required for durable change.
Date issued
2015-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and PhilosophyJournal
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Publisher
Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation
Haslanger, Sally. “Distinguished Lecture: Social Structure, Narrative and Explanation.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 1–15.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0045-5091
1911-0820