Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL3123: Social Epistemology

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

  • Bright, Liam Kofi (2021). ‘Why do Scientists Lie?’ in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Vol. 89, No.1; 117-129.
  • Fricker, Miranda (2007). Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford University Press.
  • Gardiner, Georgi (forthcoming). ‘Attunement: On the Cognitive Virtues of Attention’. In Social Virtue Epistemology, eds. Mark Alfano, Jeroen de Ridder, & Colin Klein. Routledge.
  • Nguyen, C. Thi. ‘Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles’. Episteme, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2020, pp. 141-61.
  • O’Connor, Cailin and James Owen Weatherall (2020). The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread. Yale University Press.
  • Rini, Regina. ‘Fake News and Partisan Epistemology’. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 27, Number 2 Supplement, June 2017, pp. E-43-E-64.