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SOTOMAYOR'S REASONING
Author(s) -
Alcoff Linda Martín
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.01005.x
Subject(s) - identity (music) , relevance (law) , social psychology , economic justice , variation (astronomy) , psychology , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , aesthetics , political science , law , physics , astrophysics
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was vilified for arguing that one's social identity can contribute positively to judgment or public reason. This paper considers and expands on Sotomayor's arguments, showing that identity is relevant to snap judgments and to sensation transference that affects how speakers are assessed. It further develops a hermeneutic account of identity that can make sense of its epistemic relevance without foreclosing individual variation.