Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
yes	Coursera

The fees for the course Intellectual Humility: Practice is -

Head	Amount in INR
Certificate Fees	Rs. 2,699

Before you begin...
"Can You Believe What You Hear?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias (recommended podcast)
Daniel Kahneman on Bias (recommended)
"Social Knowledge and Social Norms" by Peter Graham (further reading)
"Knowledge, Assertion and Humility" by Emma C. Gordon and J. Adam Carter (further reading)
Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice (further podcast)
"On Testimony and Transmission" by J. Adam Carter and Philip J. Nickel (further reading)

Initial thoughts
Practice Quiz
Feels good to be right?
Your examples of fears and biases
Module quiz
Reading quiz on "Can You Believe What You Hear?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson

How would you evaluate the Humean view of trust?
Can you think of some good examples of fear leading to confirmation bias?
What do you think would help you be more open to the possibility of being wrong when you encounter disagreement?
Can you think of further aspects of a person’s presentation that increase/decrease the chances of their being believed?

"How Should We Handle Disagreement?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
"The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement" by Thomas Kelly (recommended)
"Reasonable Disagreement" by Catherine Elgin (further reading)
"The Epistemology of Testimony" by Duncan Pritchard (further reading)
"Philosophical Peer Disagreement" by Nicolás Lo Guercio (further reading)
"The Epistemology of Disagreement" (video discussion between Roy Sorensen and David Christensen).
"Intellectual Humility, Knowledge-How and Disagreement" by Duncan Pritchard and J. Adam Carter (further reading)

Your initial thoughts
Practice Quiz
Back to last week
The disagreements you know
The dimensions in your example
Module quiz
Reading quiz on "How Should We Handle Disagreement?" by Ian Church and Peter Samuelson

Did your initial thoughts on why reasonable people can disagree match Professor Elgin's analysis?
Can you come up with some examples of when we should take the steadfast route in the face of disagreement?
How do you approach judging whether the person you're disagreeing with is your epistemic equal?
Professor Elgin points out a range of dimensions along which disagreement may occur. Can you think of any others?

"What Does Intellectual Humility Tell Us About Religion?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson (recommended)
"Faith and Reason" by Duncan Pritchard (recommended reading or viewing)
"Two Concepts of Intellectual Humility" by Jason Baehr (further viewing)
"Can There Be Religious Disagreement Between Epistemic Peers?" by Jennifer Lackey (further viewing)
"Scepticism and Implicit Bias" by Jennifer Saul (further reading)

Initial thoughts
Good disagreement
Practice Quiz
Evidence weighting in disagreement
Module Quiz
Reading quiz on "What Does Intellectual Humility Tell Us About Religion?" by Ian Church & Peter Samuelson

What first comes to mind when you hear the phrase “good disagreement”? How would you define it?
Why do you think it is so difficult to resolve religious disagreements?
Can you think of an evidence-weighting policy that you prefer to the type of egalitarianism that Dormandy advances?
Can you think of any other conditions under which an epistemic interlocutor would be epistemically unviable?