Jules Holroyd
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Implicit Cognition at the Aristotelian Society
March 8, 2016
Last month I gave a talk at the Aristotelian Society, in which I asked ‘What do we want from a model of implicit cognition?’ Here’s the abstract for the paper: In this paper, I set out some desiderata for a model of implicit cognition. I present test cases and suggest that, when considered in light …
Start The Week
November 9, 2015
In Citizen, An American Lyric, the poet Claudia Rankine charts the forms of micro- and macro-aggression that racism takes in the US, and the UK. I participated in a panel on race and bias with Rankine, with poet Amir Darwish, and historian Catherine Fletcher, on this week’s Start the Week, BBC Radio 4. You can …
Minorities and Philosophy: Leeds Conference on Implicit Bias
October 10, 2015
Coming up this week: this excellent looking conference, on Implicit Bias, organised by the Leeds ‘Minorities and Philosophy’ Chapter. Check out the great program here.
Implicit Bias and Analyses of Discrimination
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a symposium at Humboldt University, Berlin, on Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’s recent book on discrimination: Born Free and Equal? A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature of Discrimination. The book offers an analysis of the notion of discrimination, and tackles some questions in which the concept is implicated (the relationship …
The Implicit Mind
June 8, 2015
Myself, Tom and Robin recently had the opportunity to attend this event on The Implicit Mind, at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. It was a great forum for scholars working on a range of topics to do with implicit cognition to make progress in thinking about the structure of implicit cognition. One of …
Implicit Race Bias and the Anatomy of Institutional Racism
February 26, 2015
I recently had the opportunity to speak at an event organised by The Monitoring Group and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, on Police Corruption, Spying, Racism and Accountability. At this conference, a range of participants from activist groups, academia, legal teams and victims of injustice spoke – often powerfully and movingly – on …
Bias, Awareness and Imperfect Cognitions
December 5, 2014
Are we aware of our implicit biases? If not, does this affect our responsibility for being biased and behaving in biased ways? The stakes here are pretty high, if implicit bias is, as recently argued, involved in the appallingly numerous cases of police shootings of African American males. In a recent paper, I argue that …
Workshop on Implicit Cognitions, Nottingham
July 11, 2014
Some of our work will be presented at a workshop on implicit cognitions, which is part of a program of events put on by the Equality and Diversity committee of the Philosophy Department, University of Nottingham. Details are below. We’ll be presenting the experimental design we’ve been developing as part of the project, and presenting …
The ‘Bias’ in Implicit Bias
March 24, 2014
What is it about some implicit associations that should lead us to characterise them as ‘biases’? The idea of ‘bias’ has been unpacked in other philosophical debates, notably, by feminist philosophers concerned with bias in scientific methodology. For example, a candidate understanding of bias is offered by Louise Antony (1993) as an interest or perspective …
Homophobic bias and the effects of ‘owning’ biases
February 11, 2014
There are plenty of news stories this week of attempts to combat explicit homophobic discrimination at the Sochi winter Olympic games. Those of us who explicitly reject anti-gay bias might nonetheless be vulnerable to homophobic implicit bias; a number of studies have shown this to be one prominent sort of implicit bias that yields …
