INTEG 221: The Social Nature of Knowledge

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2024
This course examines social aspects of knowledge, including ways that characteristics of individual knowers and their communities affect the acquisition, interpretation, production, and transfer of knowledge. In addition, we analyze the consequences this has for the objectivity of knowledge. The course features significant input from researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the form of guest lectures. 
(Cross-listed with PHIL 291)