‘Thinking and Bias’: University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate and Post-Graduate Conference

‘Thinking and Bias’: University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate and
Post-Graduate Conference, 12–14 June 2015

*Keynote speaker:*
*Carla Fehr *

As philosophers, scholars, and researchers we have begun to consider,
sometimes reluctantly, whether and how our capacity for bias features into
our capacity for thought. Thinking critically about our biases and how
those biases inform the ways in which we do philosophy and engage with one
another sets notions of truth, objectivity, and rationality in dialogue
with considerations of the role of subjectivity, prejudice, and context in
philosophical thought and practice. *Thinking and Bias *aims to bring
together diverse positions on the issue of bias and the issue of bias in
philosophy. In order to unpack the challenges that bias poses to inquiry
and to “traditional” philosophical fields such as epistemology, ethics, the
history of philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science, it is
crucial to recognize the extent to which bias is a psychological, social,
and political phenomenon.

*Keynote presentation by*

*Carla Fehr https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/carla-fehr>*
 Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, Department of
Philosophy, University of Waterloo
Associate Director, Site Visit Program of the American Philosophical
Association Committee on the Status of Women

For more information, please contact us at [email protected].