Social Epistemology

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

We will examine recent vibrant debates and issues in social epistemology, including standpoint epistemology, the epistemology of testimony, first-person knowledge, feminist and anti-racist philosophy of science, and the role of values and interests in science and inference. We will also look at case studies from medicine and biology, in order to analyze how knowledge claims get produced and disseminated in messy science.