Act Like You Know: Street-Level Epistemology

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines some of the challenges and pitfalls everyone faces in their attempts to get the knowledge necessary to make better decisions on a wide range of issues. It is a course in applied – ‘street-level’ – epistemology that focuses on how we make (more) informed decisions given that each of us is limited in our knowledge-acquiring capacities, and given that each of us is faced – every day -- with having to rely on information and knowledge sourced from others. By getting clearer on these challenges and pitfalls, we might find that we can know better (in part) by realizing that we are worse at knowing some things than we often suppose. FORMATS: Lecture