Test & Epistemic Bubbles and Echo Chambers

Week 14

15. (TEST!), 16., 18.12.

What are epistemic bubbles and echo chambers? Are echo chamber always epistemically problematic?

Nguyen, “Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles”

Lackey, “Echo Chambers, Fake News, and Social Epistemology”

Group Epistemology

Week 13

9. (FINAL ESSAY DUE!), 11.12.

(NO CLASS/HOLIDAY: 8.12.)

When and how do groups know?

Gilbert “Modelling collective Belief”

Quinton “Social Objects”

Bird “When is there a group that knows?: distributed cognition, scientific knowledge, and the social epistemic subject”

Group Epistemology

Week 13

9. (FINAL ESSAY DUE!), 11.12.

(NO CLASS/HOLIDAY: 8.12.)

When and how do groups know?

Gilbert “Modelling collective Belief”

Quinton “Social Objects”

Bird “When is there a group that knows?: distributed cognition, scientific knowledge, and the social epistemic subject”

Testimony

Week 12

2., 4.12.

(NO CLASS/HOLIDAY: 1.12.)

How does one acquire knowledge from another?

Fricker “Inference to the Best Explanation and the Receipt of Testimony: Testimonial Reductionism Vindicated”

Simion “Testimonial contractarianism: A knowledge-first social epistemology”

Lackey “It takes two to Tango: Beyond Reductionism and Non-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony”

Testimony

Week 12

2., 4.12.

(NO CLASS/HOLIDAY: 1.12.)

How does one acquire knowledge from another?

Fricker “Inference to the Best Explanation and the Receipt of Testimony: Testimonial Reductionism Vindicated”

Simion “Testimonial contractarianism: A knowledge-first social epistemology”

Lackey “It takes two to Tango: Beyond Reductionism and Non-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony”