PHIL 1.14 Knowledge, Truth, and Power
How does and how should social position – race, gender, class – affect our beliefs? What roles does trust play, and ought it to play, in knowledge? How is power implicated in what we can know and in who can be epistemic authorities? Are some agents unjustly epistemically disadvantaged, and if so, how? How ought we to shape our communal interpretive resources? Social epistemology is the study of socially shared beliefs. Some of its core concerns include testimony, disagreement, and the nature of group commitment.