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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Description: The concept of bias is familiar enough, partly because it is deployed frequently and in different contexts. For example, we talk about biased jurors, biased procedures, biased laws, biased decisions, and biased people. But we also talk about bias as a feature of certain frames of mind, habits, dispositions, and mental processes. In most of these contexts, bias is seen as a kind of failing or a bad-making feature. Attributions of bias are hence often accusatory, or at least a matter of negative assessment.Although these phenomena are familiar, questions remain. Is bias is a single thing? Is bias...