In many, if not most, processes that lead to understanding or knowledge, we depend on and/or relate to others. This course examines processes involved in building knowledge and forming beliefs in relation to other individuals (e.g., Experts). It also explores how individuals collaborating in scientific groups form beliefs and how collaboratively organized science relies on a division of cognitive labor and specific forms of social organization that support the epistemic aims of science.
This seminar has a two-fold purpose: First, it examines core concepts related to trust in science, such as trustworthiness, epistemic responsibility, belief, disagreement. Second, it connects these concepts to processes relevant to collaborative knowledge generation in science, including trust and distributed epistemic labor, interpersonal epistemic trust and dependence, peer disagreement, group belief, and judgment aggregation.
Prerequisites: Willingness to engage with English-language texts. BA and MA students (German- and English- speaking) are welcome.
- Kursleiter/in: Nora Hangel