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A Critical Analysis of Stereotypes
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Wai, Patrick
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1919-3610
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625879892352223
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2021, BA, Oberlin College, Philosophy.
Abstract
Stereotypes are both acknowledged as harmful and harmless within current colloquial discussion. They can foster racist beliefs but are generally assumed to be false and irrelevant. Philosophy can provide valuable discourse for critically analyzing the function and subsequent harm of stereotypes. I follow general discourse on stereotypes within Epistemology by rejecting that all stereotypes should be assumed false. I explore an alternative reason to reject stereotypes by delineating the specific epistemic harm that stereotypes and stereotype-adjacent beliefs can enact not only on others, but on society at large. I compare various philosophical arguments that could dismantle stereotypes and reduce the potential harm that they enact. This thesis serves as a motivation for antiracist teachings founded on philosophical thought.
Committee
Dorit A. Ganson (Advisor)
Pages
41 p.
Subject Headings
Epistemology
;
Ethics
;
Philosophy
Keywords
Ethics
;
Epistemology
;
Philosophy
;
Antiracism
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Wai, P. (2021).
A Critical Analysis of Stereotypes
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625879892352223
APA Style (7th edition)
Wai, Patrick.
A Critical Analysis of Stereotypes.
2021. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625879892352223.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Wai, Patrick. "A Critical Analysis of Stereotypes." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625879892352223
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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