Bias: A Philosophical Study

ISBN-13: 9780192842954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

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Opis

Bias seems to be everywhere, in the media, in public policy, in our personal interactions. But what is it, exactly, for a person or thing to be biased? Thomas Kelly offers a way of thinking about this question, and argues provocatively that both morality and rationality sometimes require us to be biased.

Recenzje

The philosopher Thomas Kelly has been working in the field of epistemology for many years, and his new book on bias is an impressively careful and cool headed attempt to introduce some order into the conceptual mess. Jessie Munton, Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Thomas Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2004. He has written a number of widely cited and influential papers in epistemology and related areas, addressing topics such as the epistemic significance of disagreement, the relationship between theoretical and practical rationality, and foundational questions about the nature of evidence. Prior to coming to Princeton, he taught at the University of Notre Dame and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he also received his PhD.