HFIA03541U FILO, Social epistemology 1: Introduction to Social Epistemology: Collective Wisdom
Årgang 2013/2014
Engelsk titel
Social epistemology 1: Introduction to Social Epistemology: Collective Wisdom
Uddannelse
Kandidatuddannelse i
Filosofi
Kursusindhold
The course will provide
an introduction to the rapidly emerging field of social
epistemology by way of an in depth discussion of the theoretical
foundation of collective wisdom. Collective wisdom is the idea that
diverse groups of cognitive agents can cognitively outperform even
the best experts, at least in an important range of cases. Various
reasons why this is so has been suggested, among them that a
collective of agents can bring a variety of different perspectives
to bear on a particular problem, that they can exploit certain
advantageous divisions of labour, or that aggregation of many
voices increases the cognitive power of the aggregate voice. So,
diverse groups of cognitive agents are performing better than
individuals and homogeneous groups, be it in science and academia,
in organisations, in politics, or in public democratic
deliberation. The advantages of collective wisdom has recently been
explored and defended in the context of deliberative democracy by
Helen Landemore, and the course will start with a close reading of
Landemore's contribution in her book Democratic Reason:
Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
(Princeton University Press 2013). In the second part of the course
we turn to adjecent foundational questions in social
epistemology
Undervisningsmateriale
Readings will primarily be selected form Landemore's book, and from Goldman and Whitcomb (eds): Social Epistemology, Oxford Universty Press, 2011, and Landemore and Elster (eds): Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms, Cambridge University Press, 2012. The organization of the course will suggest that participants write a midterm essay on problems of collective wisdom. The midterm paper will receive feedback midway in the course, and will form the core of the final term paper.
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Seminar
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- Seminar
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Tilmelding
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Eksamen
- Point
- 15 ECTS
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Kursusinformation
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Kursuskode
- HFIA03541U
- Point
- 15 ECTS
- Niveau
- KandidatKandidat tilvalg
- Varighed
- 1 semester
- Placering
- Efterår
- Skemagruppe
- Skema bliver lagt udenfor blokstruktur
- Studienævn
- Studienævnet for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling
Udbydende institut
- Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling
Kursusansvarlige
- Jens Borglind (5-6f6774776c456d7a7233707a336970)
Undervisere
Klemens Kappel
Gemt den
08-05-2013