Abstract

Sally Haslanger has recently argued that philosophical focus on implicit bias is overly individualist, since social inequalities are best explained in terms of social structures rather than the actions and attitudes of individuals. I argue that questions of individual responsibility and implicit bias, properly understood, do constitute an important part of addressing structural injustice, and I propose an alternative conception of social structure according to which implicit biases are themselves best understood as a special type of structure.

Highlights

  • Moral philosophers, those who write on matters of morality and those concerned to conduct themselves morally, have taken great interest of late in the phenomenon of implicit bias, for many reasons

  • What is the connection between implicit bias and structural injustice? Sally Haslanger (2015) has made a crucial intervention by posing this question

  • Haslanger charges that the individualism of the implicit bias literature makes it “inadequate to explain ongoing injustice” and “fails to call attention to what is morally at stake,” and that “an adequate account of how implicit bias functions must situate it within a broader theory of social structures and structural injustice” (1)

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Those who write on matters of morality and those concerned to conduct themselves morally, have taken great interest of late in the phenomenon of implicit bias, for many reasons. Practicing Accountability in Collective Organizing I have argued that we need a theory of individual moral responsibility for structural injustice, and that accountability is ascribable even when attributability is not, such as in contexts of injustice.

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