Fake News and Partisan Epistemology
, This paper does four things: (1) It provides an analysis of the concept ‘fake news.’ (2) It identifies distinctive epistemic features of social media testimony. (3) It argues that partisanship-in-testimony-reception is not always epistemically vicious; in fact some forms of partisanship are consis...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch Hebräisch |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2017
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Jahr: 2017, Band: 27, Heft: 2, Seiten: 0-0 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | , This paper does four things: (1) It provides an analysis of the concept ‘fake news.’ (2) It identifies distinctive epistemic features of social media testimony. (3) It argues that partisanship-in-testimony-reception is not always epistemically vicious; in fact some forms of partisanship are consistent with individual epistemic virtue. (4) It argues that a solution to the problem of fake news will require changes to institutions, such as social media platforms, not just to individual epistemic practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3249 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ken.2017.0025 |