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The concept of bias is pervasive in both popular discourse and empirical theorizing within
philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This widespread application …

The US government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by
geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the …

Psychological essentialism is the hypothesis that humans represent some categories as
having an underlying essence that unifies members of a category and is causally …

This article develops a new approach for theorizing about hermeneutical injustice.
According to a dominant view, hermeneutical injustice results from a hermeneutical gap: one …

A large body of existing research suggests that people think very differently about categories
that are seen as kinds (eg, women) and categories that are not seen as kinds (eg, people …

We argue that stereotypes associated with concepts like he-said–she-said, conspiracy
theory, sexual harassment, and those expressed by paradigmatic slurs provide “normative …

In her chapter,“Pejoratives”, Robin Jeshion distinguishes pejorative lexical items (including
slurs like the n-word and suffixes like-tard) from pejorative uses of words (like boy used to …

In this paper, I present data involving the use of the Romanian slur 'țigan', consideration of
which leads to the postulation of a sui-generis, irreducible type of use of slurs …

The objective of this paper is to show that pornography dehumanizes women through
essentialization. First, I argue that certain acts of subject-essentialization are acts of subject …