The epistemology of fake news | Anandi Hattiangadi
44Anandi Hattiangadi explore whether it's becoming more difficult to discern the truth.
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From climate change denial to claiming that Covid-19 is “just the flu”, fake news has become a defining feature of our time and an urgent and novel problem to solve. While most of us believe ourselves immune to disinformation, unconscious psychological biases and epistemological limits make the task of discerning fact from fiction much harder than we might think.
What exactly is fake news? Why are none of us immune to it? Can we truly know something if we haven’t carefully investigated all evidence for and against it? If not, is it even possible to drop all our beliefs and accept we don’t know anything? Can we avoid the dangers of dogmatism while committing to a realist epistemological framework?
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Anandi Hattiangadi is Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University. Her research interests are in the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, the philosophy of psychology, and meta-ethics.
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