Dr Katherine Puddifoot's Outputs (8)

Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs (2023)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (in press). Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs. In L. Smith, & A. Archer (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Poverty. Springer Nature

Epistemic analyses of stereotyping describe how they lead to misperceptions and misunderstandings of social actors and events. The analyses have tended so far to focus on how people acquire stereotypes and/or how the stereotypes lead to distorted per... Read More about Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs.

Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions (2021)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2021). Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions. In K. McCain, S. Stapleford, & M. P. Steup (Eds.), Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134565

People sometimes face an epistemic dilemma with regards to stereotyping. We harbor a stereotype that reflects something of social reality, e.g., high rates of criminal involvement among members of a certain social group. But if we apply the stereotyp... Read More about Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions.

Credibility Deficits, Memory Errors and the Criminal Trial (2021)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2021). Credibility Deficits, Memory Errors and the Criminal Trial. In Z. Hoskins, & J. Robson (Eds.), The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials. Routledge

Mnemonic Justice (2020)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (in press). Mnemonic Justice. In S. Goldberg, & S. Wright (Eds.), Memory and Testimony: New Essays in Epistemology. Oxford University Press

Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias (2020)
Book Chapter
Holroyd, J., & Puddifoot, K. (2020). Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias. In E. Beeghly, & A. Madva (Eds.), An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice and the Social Mind. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107615

Because our knowledge-generating abilities are connected to our moral worth, we can wrong other people by treating them in ways that are disrespectful of their knowledge-generating abilities or place unjust epistemic burdens on them. Such wrongs are... Read More about Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias.

Implicit Bias and Prejudice (2019)
Book Chapter
Holroyd, J., & Puddifoot, K. (2019). Implicit Bias and Prejudice. In M. G. Fricker, J. H. Peter, & N. David Pedersen (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717937

Empirical research has substantiated the finding that very many of us harbour implicit biases: fast, automatic, and difficult to control processes that encode stereotypes and evaluative content, and influence how we think and behave. The influence of... Read More about Implicit Bias and Prejudice.

Philosophy, Bias and Stigma (2019)
Book Chapter
Bortolotti, L., & Puddifoot, K. (2019). Philosophy, Bias and Stigma. In P. D. Bubbio, & J. Malpass (Eds.), Why Philosophy?. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650990-007

In this chapter we discuss the impact of philosophical research on our understanding of the world. Considering two examples from our areas of research, we argue that empirically informed philosophy can help us both reduce and control the effects of i... Read More about Philosophy, Bias and Stigma.

Epistemic Discrimination (2017)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2017). Epistemic Discrimination. In K. Lippert-Rasmussen (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (54-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681634

Epistemic discrimination is prejudice, bias and discriminatory action suffered by individuals in their position as epistemic agents, that is, as individuals who can acquire knowledge, justified belief or understanding. Epistemic discrimination can be... Read More about Epistemic Discrimination.