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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Video
  • Trailer - Intellectual Humility: Science
Readings
  • About this course
  • Course assessments and exercises

Videos
  • Ian introduces Module 1
  • Introduction
  • Learning and explanation
  • Inconsistency, explanation and belief revision
  • Implications for child education
Readings
  • Before you begin...
  • Optional companion book
  • "How Do We Become Intellectually Humble?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
  • "How Do We Develop and Maintain Humility?" by Bob Roberts (recommended)
  • "Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises" by Raymond S. Nickerson (further reading)
Practice Exercises
  • Module Quiz
  • Back to school
  • Initial thoughts
  • Practice Quiz
  • Reading quiz on "How Do We Develop and Maintain Humility?" by Bob Roberts

Videos
  • Ian introduces Module 2
  • Introduction
  • Humility, arrogance, and base rate neglect
  • Developmental over-optimism
  • The illusion of explanatory depth
  • Illusions of argument justification and insight
  • Illusions of the outsourced mind
Readings
  • "What Can Human Cognition Tell Us About Intellectual Humility?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
  • "Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge" by Matthew Fisher et al. (recommended)
  • "The Illusion of Argument Justification" by Matthew Fisher and Frank Keil (further reading)
  • "Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The 'Misplaced Meaning' Effect" by Jonathan Kominsky and Frank Keil (further reading)
  • "The Misunderstood Limits of Folk Science: An Illusion of Explanatory Depth" by Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil (further reading)
  • "Overoptimism about future knowledge: Early Arrogance?" by Lockhart et al. (further reading)
Practice Exercises
  • Examples of biases
  • Module Quiz
  • Rose-coloured biases in action
  • Practice Quiz
  • More examples of biases
  • Reading quiz on "What Can Human Cognition Tell Us About Intellectual Humility?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson

Videos
  • Ian introduces Module 3
  • Open-minded cognition
  • Open-minded cognition: relations with other constructs
  • The flexible merit standard model
  • Message tenability effect
  • The reciprocal nature of open-minded cognition
  • The earned dogmatism effect
  • The attitude justification effect
  • Concluding remarks
Readings
  • "Are Some People Born Humble?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson (recommended)
  • The Big 5 Personality Test
  • "When Self-Perceptions of Expertise Increase Closed-Minded Cognition: The Earned Dogmatism Effect" by Ottati et al. (further reading)
Practice Exercises
  • Module Quiz
  • Open-mindedness in public discourse and life
  • Initial thoughts
  • Untenable messages
  • Practice Quiz
  • Reading quiz on "Are Some People Born Humble?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson

Videos
  • Ian introduces Module 4
  • Why not intellectualise?
  • Towards engagement: seeing the other as a person
  • Towards engagement: being involved
  • Towards engagement: not focusing on the self
  • Towards engagement: Dialogue, value and difference
  • An exploratory study
  • Conclusions
Readings
  • Before you finish...
  • "How Do Emotions Affect Our Ability to Be Intellectually Humble?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson (recommended)
  • "The role of emotional engagement in lecturer-student interaction and the impact on academic outcomes of student achievement and learning" by Vathsala Sagayadevan and Senthu Jeyaraj (further reading)
Practice Exercises
  • Module Quiz
  • Quiz: Initial thoughts
  • Practice Quiz
  • Deceptive self-justification
  • Reading quiz on "How Do Emotions Affect Our Ability to Be Intellectually Humble?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson

Readings
  • Show what you learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on intellectual humility!
  • A brief How-To
  • TRAILER: Intellectual Humility: Theory
  • TRAILER: Intellectual Humility: Practice

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