ABSTRACT
Rather than coming from our partisan identities, some political epistemologists seem to assume that our political beliefs come from demographic aspects of our identities, such as race and gender. These theories of standpoint and positionality are the contemporary analogues of the Marxist notion of class consciousness. However, in their most sophisticated forms they do not make bold assertions or predictions about political beliefs based on demographic factors, and so we postpone full consideration of them to the chapter on expertise.
