The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear, Prejudice, and Generalization
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Generics are thought to lead people to believe that there is some hidden and stable property or underlying nature shared by members of the kind at issue that causally grounds their common properties and dispositions.
“generics are thought to lead people to believe that there is some hidden and stable property or underlying nature shared by members of the kind at issue that causally grounds their common properties and dispositions”
From Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms (2023) · cites this paper as Leslie [2017]
A number of philosophers have argued that hearing and using social generics can also have ethically problematic consequences by making people more likely to essentialize social kinds, such as racial or gender groups.
“It is worth noting too that a number of philosophers have argued that hearing and using social generics can also have ethically problematic consequences by making people more likely to 'essentialize' social kinds, for instance, racial or gender groups (Langton et al. [2012]; Leslie [2017])”
From Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms (2023) · cites this paper as Leslie [2017]
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- Authors
- Leslie, S.-J., & Journal of Philosophy Inc.
- Corresponding author
- Leslie, Sarah-Jane
- ORCID
- Leslie, Sarah-Jane
- Venue
- Journal of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 393-421
- ISSN
- 0022-362X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2766247485
- Cited by
- 251
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 105.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Philosophy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Keywords
- original sin, cognition, sin
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