PHIL 1465 - SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description As social creatures, we learn from each other, and our ways of believing affect each other. As animals, we have imperfect cognitive systems, facts about which may help answer what we can and should believe in certain contexts. With these facts in mind, the guiding questions of the course will be these: (1) Can we arrive at knowledge, given that we are imperfect animals acting in complicated social and environmental contexts? (2) How should facts about our social identities and our cognitive systems determine what we should or should not believe? (3) How do our ways of believing affect each other, and how can we mitigate potential harms that may arise on account of our ways of believing?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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