Renée Jorgensen Bolinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renée Jorgensen Bolinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renée Jorgensen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolinger |
| SIGNATURE | BOLINGER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1351-1892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Protect, serve, predict
Some think the moral structure of policing is closely analogous to defensive harm: it is permissible to impose proportionate harm on others when necessary to defend against threatened unjust harm. Many think that whether a policing strategy is justified depends primarily on whether it efficiently reduces the crime rate without directly violating any stringent rights. This paper rejects both of these views. It presents policing as a project in soc…
The social life of prejudice
A ‘vestigial social practice' is a norm, convention, or social behavior that persists even when few endorse it or its original justifying rationale. Begby (2021) explores social explanations for the persistence of prejudice, arguing that even if we all privately disavow a stereotype, we might nevertheless continue acting as if it is true because we believe that others expect us to. Meanwhile the persistence of the practice provides something like…
Prejudice: A Study in Non-ideal Epistemology
Algorithms and the Individual in Criminal Law
Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly able to leverage crime statistics to make risk predictions for particular individuals, employing a form of inference that some condemn as violating the right to be “treated as an individual.” I suggest that the right encodes agents’ entitlement to a fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of the rule of law. Rather than precluding statistical prediction, it requires that citizens be able to anticipa…
Metalinguistic negotiations in moral disagreement
The problem of moral disagreement has been presented as an objection to contextualist semantics for ‘ought’, since it is not clear that contextualism can accommodate or give a convincing gloss of such disagreement. I argue that independently of our semantics, disagreements over ‘ought’ in non-cooperative contexts are best understood as indirect metalinguistic disputes, which is easily accommodated by contextualism. If this is correct, then rather…
Demographic statistics in defensive decisions
Varieties of Moral Encroachment
Several authors have recently suggested that moral factors and norms ‘encroach’ on the epistemic, and because of salient parallels to pragmatic encroachment views in epistemology, these suggestions have been dubbed ‘moral encroachment views’. This paper distinguishes between variants of the moral encroachment thesis, pointing out how they address different problems, are motivated by different considerations, and are not all subject to the same ob…
The rational impermissibility of accepting (some) racial generalizations
The Moral Grounds of Reasonably Mistaken Self‐Defense
Some, but not all, of the mistakes a person makes when acting in apparently necessary self‐defense are reasonable : we take them not to violate the rights of the apparent aggressor. I argue that this is explained by duties grounded in agents’ entitlements to a fair distribution of the risk of suffering unjust harm. I suggest that the content of these duties is filled in by a social signaling norm, and offer some moral constraints on the form such…
Moral Risk and Communicating Consent
An agent's rights restrict how it is permissible for others to act.The fact that a mug is yours prohibits me from taking it
Reasonable Mistakes and Regulative Norms: Racial Bias in Defensive Harm
The rational impermissibility of accepting (some) racial generalizations
Varieties of Moral Encroachment
Several authors have recently suggested that moral factors and norms ‘encroach’ on the epistemic, and because of salient parallels to pragmatic encroachment views in epistemology, these suggestions have been dubbed ‘moral encroachment views’. This paper distinguishes between variants of the moral encroachment thesis, pointing out how they address different problems, are motivated by different considerations, and are not all subject to the same ob…
Moral Risk and Communicating Consent
An agent's rights restrict how it is permissible for others to act.The fact that a mug is yours prohibits me from taking it
Reasonable Mistakes and Regulative Norms: Racial Bias in Defensive Harm
Demographic statistics in defensive decisions
The Moral Grounds of Reasonably Mistaken Self‐Defense
Some, but not all, of the mistakes a person makes when acting in apparently necessary self‐defense are reasonable : we take them not to violate the rights of the apparent aggressor. I argue that this is explained by duties grounded in agents’ entitlements to a fair distribution of the risk of suffering unjust harm. I suggest that the content of these duties is filled in by a social signaling norm, and offer some moral constraints on the form such…
Reasonable Mistakes and Regulative Norms: Racial Bias in Defensive Harm
Moral Risk and Communicating Consent
An agent's rights restrict how it is permissible for others to act.The fact that a mug is yours prohibits me from taking it
Varieties of Moral Encroachment
Several authors have recently suggested that moral factors and norms ‘encroach’ on the epistemic, and because of salient parallels to pragmatic encroachment views in epistemology, these suggestions have been dubbed ‘moral encroachment views’. This paper distinguishes between variants of the moral encroachment thesis, pointing out how they address different problems, are motivated by different considerations, and are not all subject to the same ob…
The rational impermissibility of accepting (some) racial generalizations
The Moral Grounds of Reasonably Mistaken Self‐Defense
Some, but not all, of the mistakes a person makes when acting in apparently necessary self‐defense are reasonable : we take them not to violate the rights of the apparent aggressor. I argue that this is explained by duties grounded in agents’ entitlements to a fair distribution of the risk of suffering unjust harm. I suggest that the content of these duties is filled in by a social signaling norm, and offer some moral constraints on the form such…
Demographic statistics in defensive decisions
Algorithms and the Individual in Criminal Law
Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly able to leverage crime statistics to make risk predictions for particular individuals, employing a form of inference that some condemn as violating the right to be “treated as an individual.” I suggest that the right encodes agents’ entitlement to a fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of the rule of law. Rather than precluding statistical prediction, it requires that citizens be able to anticipa…
Metalinguistic negotiations in moral disagreement
The problem of moral disagreement has been presented as an objection to contextualist semantics for ‘ought’, since it is not clear that contextualism can accommodate or give a convincing gloss of such disagreement. I argue that independently of our semantics, disagreements over ‘ought’ in non-cooperative contexts are best understood as indirect metalinguistic disputes, which is easily accommodated by contextualism. If this is correct, then rather…
Prejudice: A Study in Non-ideal Epistemology
The social life of prejudice
A ‘vestigial social practice' is a norm, convention, or social behavior that persists even when few endorse it or its original justifying rationale. Begby (2021) explores social explanations for the persistence of prejudice, arguing that even if we all privately disavow a stereotype, we might nevertheless continue acting as if it is true because we believe that others expect us to. Meanwhile the persistence of the practice provides something like…
Protect, serve, predict
Some think the moral structure of policing is closely analogous to defensive harm: it is permissible to impose proportionate harm on others when necessary to defend against threatened unjust harm. Many think that whether a policing strategy is justified depends primarily on whether it efficiently reduces the crime rate without directly violating any stringent rights. This paper rejects both of these views. It presents policing as a project in soc…
Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Free Will and Agency (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works)