Ashmolean Museum
University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
UK
Why Implicit Bias Matters
with Professor Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield
Organised by the Royal Institute of Philosophy branch at Oxford Brookes University, in association with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Bloomsbury Academic
Facebook event:
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The talk is free and open to everyone. No registration is required but please arrive early to ensure you get a seat.
Drinks and nibbles from 17.30
Chair: Constantine Sandis
Over recent decades, psychologists have demonstrated that most human beings, even those genuinely dedicated to egalitarianism, are prone to largely unconscious and automatic biases against members of those groups that are stigmatised in their societies.These biases manifest themselves in behaviours that help to maintain inequalities and injustices in the world, despite the often good intentions of those holding them. Jennifer Saul’s talk will explore ways that philosophy can contribute to understanding these phenomena.
Professor Jennifer Saul is Head of Department at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Lying, Misleading and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics (Oxford University Press 2012), and was Director of the recently concluded Implicit Bias and Philosophy Research Network (http://biasproject.org/).