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9 Ways to Create an “Intellectually Humble” Classroom

A university faculty member offers practical pedagogical steps to incorporate in the classroom to foster an intellectually humble environment.
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Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?

Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.
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What Is Intellectual Humility?

Almost all of us are far more confident in ourselves than we probably should be. If we humbly admit this, does it improve how we deal with conflict?

Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts

Research about intellectual humility has exploded in the past decade. Psychologist Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso offers an annotated bibliography of key texts.
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Second Opinions: On Intellectual Humility and Medicine

What happens when doctors admit they don't know everything?
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What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility?

In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.

Doing Math with Intellectual Humility

Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.
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Drinking with Intellectual Humility

What happens when you mix alcohol with intellectual humility? A philosopher asks a writer and former bartender to share her thoughts.
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Come Let Us Argue: Faith and Intellectual Humility

Can belief in the divine endure in an individual who possesses an openness to being wrong? How do doubt and faith co-exist among the religious?