Silvers 'No Talent' Article Flashcards
What does Silvers focus on?
Silvers focuses on the roles of outliers because she is challenging the social contract so it is more comprehensive and inclusive to those who are an outlier to society. Outliers impact how theories should be developed by making the theories to include the utmost equality and fairness, by including outliers you are acknowledging that not everyone has the same opportunities and giving them equal advantage.
What is an outlier?
People who depart significantly from the prevailing paradigm for philosophy considerably. An example of an outlier is :individuals are explicitly exempted from philosophy’s scope as, for example, when epistemology theory discounts the judgements of blind people as irrelevant or unimportant to philosophical accounts of empirical knowledge” (Silvers)
Why are outliers ignored?
Outliers have been ignored in political philosophy because they are unaware that they exist, those unaware of their disadvantages.
What are the advantages to Silvers view?
They are conceptually simple and straightforward without the need of the introduction of an outlier. SImple frameworks are easier to apply. The example of albinism in Zimbabwe showcased the negative consequences of the exclusion of outliers because of how people were targeted because of the conditions of the gene pool. The people that have albinism experienced the treatment of an outlier which affected their human intimacy, social interaction, and equal opportunity.
