SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Coherentism, Css Box Model, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

Hume: not all our faculties can be rationally justified. Move to recognize that some of our mental activities seem to be more helpful/ useful to navigating the world than others. Change to a coherentist account of justification to explain why some things our mind does better than others. Use science (a process by which we form and justify beliefs) to evaluate the other ways we form and justify beliefs. Maybe it is not our faculties -- if hume"s approach leads us to think we cannot trust some faculties over others, maybe we need to change our methods of belief. We can trust empirical society and use it to learn something about people and society. Accounts of science to show that some of our faculties are prone to lead us into error more than others. There are safe spots within my mind that i can stand to justify other things.