{"id":408,"date":"2016-08-15T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2022-10-19T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:03:09","slug":"seminar-in-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=408","title":{"rendered":"Seminar in Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-329\" src=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram-1024x654.png\" alt=\"Belief_Venn_diagram\" width=\"625\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram-1024x654.png 1024w, https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram-624x398.png 624w, https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Belief_Venn_diagram.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This course will focus on recent debates in social epistemology, particularly those concerning the rationality of trust in oneself and in others.\u00a0 Our central questions will include: \u00a0<\/span>When is it rational to believe the testimony of another person? \u00a0When is it rational to persist in beliefs that you came to hold in the past? \u00a0How should you respond to disagreement from an epistemic peer, who appears to be as reasonable, informed, and intelligent as you, but whose beliefs regarding controversial questions contradict your own? \u00a0Is it rational for you to persist in beliefs that you know you would have rejected had you been raised in another family or culture? \u00a0How should you respond to evidence supporting that you might not be as trustworthy as you previously believed?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Course Documents and Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seminar-in-Epistemology-fall-2016-PHL404H1F-syllabus2.pdf\">Seminar in\u00a0Epistemology fall 2016 syllabus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimpryor.net\/teaching\/guidelines\/writing.html\">Jim Pryor&#8217;s &#8216;Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Readings:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description: This course will focus on recent debates in social epistemology, particularly those concerning the rationality of trust in oneself and in others.\u00a0 Our central questions will include: \u00a0When is it rational to believe the testimony of another person? \u00a0When is it rational to persist in beliefs that you came to hold in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/408\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}