The Epistemology of Controversy (Graduate seminar, Fall 2022)
Kevin Dorst & Roger White
Kevin Dorst & Roger White
I. Disagreement
Sept 12 (Both)
II. Irrelevant Influences
Oct. 3 (Kevin) [Handout]
Oct. 17 (Roger)
III. Permissivism
Oct. 24 (Both)
IV. Bias and Polarization
Nov. 7 (Roger)
· Student presentations
Sept 12 (Both)
- Kelly 2005, The Epistemic Significance of Disagreemeent (Roger)
- Primer on probability (Kevin)
No reading. If you’d like more, the first two chapters of this textbook are fantastic.
- Elga 2007, Reflection and Disagreement
- McGrath 2008, Moral Disagreement and Moral Expertise
- Elga 2010, How to Disagree about How to Disagree
- Pittard 2015, Resolute Conciliationism
II. Irrelevant Influences
Oct. 3 (Kevin) [Handout]
- White 2010, You Just Believe That Because...
- Schoenfield 2017, Meditations on Beliefs Formed Arbitrarily
Oct. 17 (Roger)
- Mogensen 2016, Contingency Anxiety and the Epistemology of Disagreement
- Paul 2021, The Paradox of Empathy
III. Permissivism
Oct. 24 (Both)
- White 2005, Epistemic Permissiveness (Kevin)
- Schoenfield 2014, Permission to Believe (Roger)
- Schoenfield, Horowitz, and Dogramaci MS, Are you now, or have you ever been, an impermissivist
- Christensen 2016, Conciliationism, Uniqueness, and Rational Toxicity
IV. Bias and Polarization
Nov. 7 (Roger)
- Rini 2017, Fake News and Partisan Epistemology
- Worsnip 2019, The obligation to diversify one’s sources
- Kelly 2008, Disagreement, Dogmatism, and Belief Polarization
- McWilliams 2019, Evidentialism and Belief Polarization
- Henderson and Gebharter 2021, The role of source reliability in belief polarisation
- Salow 2019, The Externalists Guide to Fishing for Compliments (Focus on §1 and §3)
- Kamenica and Gentzkow 2011, Bayesian Persuasion
- Little 2022, Bayesian Explanations for Persuasion
- [Never mind, don't read this one:] Kamenica 2019, Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design
- Wilson 2014, Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing
- Dallmann 2017, When obstinacy is the best policy
· Student presentations