Weinberger, Naftali (2022) Signal Manipulation and the Causal Analysis of Racial Discrimination. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Discussions of the causal status of race focus on the question of whether race itself can be experimentally manipulated. Yet many experiments testing for racial discrimination do not manipulate race, but rather a signal by which race influences an outcome. Such signal manipulations are easily formalized, though contexts of discrimination introduce significant philosophical complications. Whether a signal counts as a signal for race is not merely a causal question, but depends on sociological and normative issues regarding discrimination. The notion of signal manipulation enables one to take these issues into account while still using causal counterfactual tests to detect discrimination. The analysis provided here is compatible with social constructivism and helps differentiate between cases in which it is more or less fruitful to model race causally.
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Keywords: | Causation; Race; Manipulability; Discrimination; Causal Modeling; Experiments; Social Construction | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Science and Society Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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Depositing User: | Mr. Naftali Weinberger | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2022 18:28 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2022 18:28 | ||||||
Item ID: | 21031 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Science and Society Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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Date: | February 2022 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21031 |
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Signal Manipulation and the Causal Status of Race. (deposited 14 Oct 2021 01:26)
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Signal Manipulation and the Causal Analysis of Racial Discrimination. (deposited 09 Feb 2022 03:24)
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