Resisting Social Categories.

Sara Bernstein - forthcoming - Oxford Studies in Agency

and Responsibility.
The social categories to which we belong—Latino, disabled, American, woman— causally
influence our lives in deep and unavoidable ways. One might be pulled over by police because
one is Latino, or one might receive a COVID vaccine sooner because one is American.
Membership in these social categories most often falls outside of our control. This paper argues
that membership in social categories constitutes a restriction on human agency, creating a
situation of non-ideal agency for many human individuals. -/- However, there (...)