Knowledge Lesson 4: Cancelling and Unmuting
Lesson 4: Chapter 7, 'Canceling: Despotism of the Few', and chapter 8, 'Unmute Yourself: Pushing Back'
How does knowledge come into the world? What sorts of tests are ideas subjected to? What does it mean for an idea to stand the test of time? What is truth? No one has addressed these questions in recent times with greater verve and persuasiveness than Jonathan Rauch. On this course we will read chapters from Rauch’s most recent publication on this subject: The Constitution of Knowledge.
