Implicit Bias: What is it, Who is to Blame and What’s Next?

In daily life, we might experience or exhibit various forms of implicit bias, e.g. experiencing anxiety when walking past individuals from certain racial groups, or being surprised by female students’ achievement in science classes. How should we understand implicit bias? What’s the mechanism of it? In this course, we will explore two fundamental aspects of implicit bias, i.e. its nature and its corresponding moral blameworthiness. This course is designed to be interdisciplinary and to equip students with the ability to critically analyze the everyday phenomena of implicit bias and rethink about the moral blameworthiness of implicit bias in real life cases.