Thinking Across the Disciplines - Concourse Friday Seminar

Friday 12:30-2:30
Concourse Lounge, 16-128

The Concourse Seminar is dedicated this spring to the critical epistemological question of how we can know those things that we think we know. We will consider what knowledge consists of, how we acquire it, and how we can feel certain enough in it to provide us with a direction forward. These broad concerns are not all addressed in the same way across the disciplines, as the standard(s) for truth claims can vary considerably depending on the object of one's inquiry. Over the course of the semester we will hear from a variety of MIT Faculty from a range of Humanities and Social Science disciplines about some aspect of their own work. You will have the opportunity to see how different disciplines think: how they frame questions, how they gather evidence, and how they use that evidence to answer their questions.