Sexism

@misc{ruse1981is1,
    author = "Ruse, M",
    title = "Is Science Sexist? And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences",
    year = "1981",
    howpublished = "Dordrecht, Reidel",
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@article{diamond1982review,
    author = "Diamond, Milton",
    title = "Review of Is Science Sexist: And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences.",
    year = "1982",
    journal = "Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1037/021260",
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    number = "6",
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@article{watson1982is,
    author = "Watson, Patty Jo",
    title = "Is Science Sexist? (And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences). Michael Ruse",
    year = "1982",
    journal = "The Quarterly Review of Biology",
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    title = "Is Science Sexist? And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences. By Michael Ruse. Pp. xix + 299. (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1981.)",
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@article{jordanova1983is,
    author = "Jordanova, L. J.",
    title = "Is Science Sexist? And other problems in the biomedical sciences (Book).",
    year = "1983",
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    number = "2",
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@article{molland1983is,
    author = "Molland, A. George",
    title = "Is Science Sexist? And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences. By Michael Ruse. Pp. xix + 299. (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1981.)",
    year = "1983",
    journal = "Journal of Biosocial Science",
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@article{richards1983is,
    author = "Richards, Robert J.",
    title = "Is Science Sexist? And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences. Michael Ruse",
    year = "1983",
    journal = "Isis",
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    doi = "10.1086/353318",
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    volume = "74"
}

@incollection{bauer2006sexist,
    author = "Bauer, Laurie and Holmes, Janet and Warren, Paul",
    title = "Sexist Language and Linguistic Sexism",
    year = "2006",
    booktitle = "Language Matters",
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    pages = "157-168"
}

@incollection{ayim2018a,
    author = "Ayim, Maryann and Houston, Barbara",
    title = "A Conceptual Analysis of Sexism and Sexist Education",
    year = "2018",
    booktitle = "The Gender Question in Education",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496530-2",
    doi = "10.4324/9780429496530-2",
    pages = "9-30"
}

The claim that prejudice causes prejudiced beliefs is a familiar one. Call it the causal claim. In this paper, I turn to sexism and sexist beliefs to explore the causal claim within the context of current debates in the ethics of beliefs about moral encroachment on epistemic rationality. My goal is to consider and arbitrate between plausible ways of fleshing out the idea that the non-doxastic dimensions of sexism (including its motivational and affective components as well as its structural and institutional varieties) cause sexist beliefs in a normatively significant way – that is, in a way that can render those beliefs epistemically deficient. I suggest that, in conjunction with the assumption that sexist beliefs are epistemically irrational, each position in the ethics of belief debate lends itself to a different interpretation of the causal claim: purism about epistemic rationality supports a narrow interpretation, while revisionism supports a broad one. After developing each interpretation, I argue that – at the heart of the disagreement between them – is a different story about the normative significance of the fact that evidence about an unfortunate truth has a sexist provenance. Along the way, I consider what it means for evidence to be “stacked in favor” of sexist beliefs.

@article{brinkerhoff2025sexist,
    author = "Brinkerhoff, Anna",
    title = "Sexist Beliefs in a Sexist World: Exploring the Causal Role of Sexism in Sexist Beliefs",
    year = "2025",
    journal = "Episteme",
    abstract = "The claim that prejudice causes prejudiced beliefs is a familiar one. Call it the causal claim. In this paper, I turn to sexism and sexist beliefs to explore the causal claim within the context of current debates in the ethics of beliefs about moral encroachment on epistemic rationality. My goal is to consider and arbitrate between plausible ways of fleshing out the idea that the non-doxastic dimensions of sexism (including its motivational and affective components as well as its structural and institutional varieties) cause sexist beliefs in a normatively significant way – that is, in a way that can render those beliefs epistemically deficient. I suggest that, in conjunction with the assumption that sexist beliefs are epistemically irrational, each position in the ethics of belief debate lends itself to a different interpretation of the causal claim: purism about epistemic rationality supports a narrow interpretation, while revisionism supports a broad one. After developing each interpretation, I argue that – at the heart of the disagreement between them – is a different story about the normative significance of the fact that evidence about an unfortunate truth has a sexist provenance. Along the way, I consider what it means for evidence to be “stacked in favor” of sexist beliefs.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2024.61",
    doi = "10.1017/epi.2024.61",
    number = "4",
    pages = "952-970",
    volume = "22"
}