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Group membership: Who gets to decide?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

Anne Jaap Jacobson
Anne Jaap Jacobson*
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Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HD, United Kingdom. ajjacobson@uh.edu
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Abstract

In this commentary, I focus on several problems that the authors' understanding of group identity raises: the legality of avoiding background diversity, the problem of effectively unshareable knowledge, the practical quality of some outcomes arrived at by groups with homogeneous backgrounds, and moral issues about fairness. I note also that much recent research challenges the view that background diversity is more likely to be a detriment than a benefit.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e155
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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