Intellectual Humility: Practice
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The Syllabus
Video
- Trailer - Intellectual Humility: Practice
Readings
- About this course
- Course assessments and exercises
- Optional companion book
Videos
- Ian Introduces Module 1
- Introduction to testimony
- Trust and scepticism
- The evolutionary background of trust
- Reconciling testimony with what we already believe
- The right, the wrong, and the humble
- Humility, fear and bias
- Humility and confidence
Readings
- Before you begin...
- "Can You Believe What You Hear?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
- Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias (recommended podcast)
- Daniel Kahneman on Bias (recommended)
- "Social Knowledge and Social Norms" by Peter Graham (further reading)
- "Knowledge, Assertion and Humility" by Emma C. Gordon and J. Adam Carter (further reading)
- Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice (further podcast)
- "On Testimony and Transmission" by J. Adam Carter and Philip J. Nickel (further reading)
Practice Exercises
- Initial thoughts
- Practice Quiz
- Feels good to be right?
- Your examples of fears and biases
- Module quiz
- Reading quiz on "Can You Believe What You Hear?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson
Videos
- Ian Introduces Module 2
- Introduction to disagreement
- Disagreement between equals
- Dimensions of reasonable disagreement
Readings
- "How Should We Handle Disagreement?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
- "The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement" by Thomas Kelly (recommended)
- "Reasonable Disagreement" by Catherine Elgin (further reading)
- "The Epistemology of Testimony" by Duncan Pritchard (further reading)
- "Philosophical Peer Disagreement" by Nicolás Lo Guercio (further reading)
- "The Epistemology of Disagreement" (video discussion between Roy Sorensen and David Christensen).
- "Intellectual Humility, Knowledge-How and Disagreement" by Duncan Pritchard and J. Adam Carter (further reading)
Practice Exercises
- Your initial thoughts
- Practice Quiz
- Back to last week
- The disagreements you know
- The dimensions in your example
- Module quiz
- Reading quiz on "How Should We Handle Disagreement?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson
Videos
- Ian Introduces Module 3
- Introduction
- Biases and evidence-weighting
- Three evidence-weighting policies
- Assessing privatism
- Assessing publicism
- Assessing egalitarianism
- Improving egalitarianism
Readings
- "What Does Intellectual Humility Tell Us About Religion?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
- "Faith and Reason" by Duncan Pritchard (recommended reading or viewing)
- "Two Concepts of Intellectual Humility" by Jason Baehr (further viewing)
- "Can There Be Religious Disagreement Between Epistemic Peers?" by Jennifer Lackey (further viewing)
- "Scepticism and Implicit Bias" by Jennifer Saul (further reading)
Practice Exercises
- Initial thoughts
- Good disagreement
- Practice Quiz
- Evidence weighting in disagreement
- Module Quiz
- Reading quiz on "What Does Intellectual Humility Tell Us About Religion?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson
Readings
- Before you finish...
- Show what you learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on intellectual humility!
- A brief How-To
- TRAILER: Intellectual Humility: Theory
- TRAILER: Intellectual Humility: Science
Articles