In their paper arguing that ‘educational’ solutions to fake news are superior to ‘structural’ solutions, Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza (2021) challenge my earlier (Rini 2017) claim that the spread of fake news results (partly) from an individually reasonable practice… Read More ›
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Conceptualizing Disinformation, Tim Hayward
The term disinformation is used extensively today in public discussions and also in a growing academic literature, but it has been subject to relatively little conceptual analysis—although Søe (2018) helpfully reviews some philosophical treatments. More generally, the term’s range of… Read More ›
Epistemic Norms and Failures of Reporting, Beba Cibralic
In “Caliphate and the Social Epistemology of Podcasts”, Josh Habgood-Coote (2021) writes that the New York Times’ (referred to as the Times throughout) podcast Caliphate’s central flaw is that it “failed to accurately represent the credibility of someone whose speech… Read More ›
‘Caliphate’ and the Problem of Testimony, Beba Cibralic
In 2004, the New York Times apologised for its misleading reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. After an internal review, the Times acknowledged the swamp of mistakes that resulted in the spread of misinformation: journalists did not confirm… Read More ›
Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling, Part 2, Bernard Wills
Author Information: Bernard Wills, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. bwills@grenfell.mun.ca. Wills, Bernard. “Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 1-10. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Due… Read More ›
Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling, Part 1, Bernard Wills
Author Information: Bernard Wills, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. bwills@grenfell.mun.ca. Wills, Bernard. “Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 1-10. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Due… Read More ›
Politics, Deception, and Being Self-Deceived, Matthew R. X. Dentith
Author Information: Matthew R. X. Dentith, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, m.dentith@episto.org. Dentith, Matthew R. X. “Politics, Deception, and Being Self-Deceived.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 4 (2019): 38-43. The pdf of the… Read More ›
On Political Culpability: The Unconscious?, Raphael Sassower
Author Information: Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rsassowe@uccs.edu. Sassower, Raphael. “On Political Culpability: The Unconscious?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 26-29. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-45p In the… Read More ›
Putting The Deceptive Activist into Conversation: A Review and a Response to Rappert, Gregory Nelson
Author Information: Gregory Nelson, Northern Arizona University, nelsong@vt.edu Nelson, Gregory. “Putting The Deceptive Activist into Conversation: A Review and a Response to Rappert.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 11 (2017): 33-35. The PDF of the article gives… Read More ›