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7Les fake news et l’avenir de la véritéDiogène 262 (1): 5-19. 2019.Pourquoi la pollution de l’information se répand elle si aisément dans le media sociaux? et pourquoi est-il si vain de recourir aux preuves et aux données pour la combattre? Ma réponse repose sur une nouvelle hypothèse au sujet de la fonction de certains de nos actes de communication dans les media sociaux. Elle vise à comprendre le phénomène des fake news, mais aussi la communication en général.
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5The Internet and Epistemic AgencyIn Jennifer Lackey (ed.), Applied Epistemology. pp. 389-409. 2021.For most people, the internet is now the most dominant source of socially useful knowledge. Its widespread use has made knowledge more accessible, more widely distributed, and more commonly produced. But the internet is also widely seen—and not just by philosophers—as raising a number of distinct epistemological problems. Some of those problems concern the metaphysics of knowledge—the extent to which knowledge via the internet is understood as outsourced, or even extended, knowledge. Others conc…Read more
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5Ontography as the Study of Locally Organized OntologiesZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 10 (1): 147-160. 2019.Ontography is distinguished from ontology in the way it pursues historical or ethnographic case studies, rather than general philosophical reflections on the nature of being. Ontography takes classical metaphysical problems, such as how to distinguish between natural entities and human technologies, but instead of offering a general solution to those problems it describes how socially, historically, and institutionally situated agents address and provisionally resolve those problems. Examples of…Read more
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5The Elusive Nature of TruthPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 4 (2): 229-256. 2000.In this essay, I present a new argument for the impossibility of defining truth by specifying the underlying structural property all and only true propositions have in common The set of considerations I use to support this claim take as that inspiration Alston's recent argument that it is impossible to define truth epistemically—in terms of justification or warrant According to what Alston calls the “intensional argument”, epistemic definitions are inconsistent with the T schema or the principle…Read more
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5Cognitive activities without cognition? ethnomethodological investigations of selected ‘cognitive’ topicsDiscourse Studies 8 (1): 95-104. 2006.Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis investigate many of the activities that are featured in the cognitive sciences. These include memory, learning, perception, and calculative activities. However, for ethno/ca such activities are not necessarily ‘cognitive’, and their investigation as activities does not necessarily require observation or speculation about what goes on within the mind or brain. This article briefly discusses three examples of nominal ‘cognitive’ activities: looking-for/se…Read more
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4Truth and NaturalismIn Kelly James Clark (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, Wiley. 2016.Is truth itself natural? This is an important question for both those working on truth and those working on naturalism. For theorists of truth, answering the question of whether truth is natural will tell us more about the nature of truth (or lack of it), and the relations between truth and other properties of interest. For those working on naturalism who wish to have truth as part of the natural order, answering this question is of paramount importance. In this chapter, we focus primarily on th…Read more
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4Truth Relativism and Truth PluralismIn Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Introduction Truth Relativism Metaphysics of Truth Relativism Truth Relativism and the Scope Problem Truth Pluralism Example: Relative Moral Truth Conclusion References.
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4The Value of Truth and the Truth of ValuesIn A. Haddock, A. Millar & D. Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic Value, Oxford University Press. 2009.There are least two different things we might mean when we say that truth is a value: that it is a norm of belief, and that it is an end of inquiry. This paper considers to what extent we might be irrealist about the former claim -- that truth is a norm of belief.
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3The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century (review)Isis 99 884-885. 2008.
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3Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life (review)Isis 102 384-385. 2011.
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3Introduction: Humans, Animals, and MachinesScience, Technology and Human Values 23 (4): 371-383. 1998.
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3From naturally occurring data to naturally organized ordinary activities: comment on SpeerDiscourse Studies 4 (4): 531-537. 2002.
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3The story of ‘Oh’, Part 1: Indexing structure, animating transcriptDiscourse Studies 18 (5): 550-573. 2016.The expression ‘Oh’ in natural conversation is a signal topic in the development of the Epistemic Program. This article attempts to bring into view a sense of place for this simple expression in the early literature, beginning with ‘Oh’ as a ‘change-of-state token’ and through its subsequent treatments in the production of assessments. It reviews them with an interest in two allied developments. One is the rendering of ‘Oh’ as an expression that ‘indexes’ epistemic structure. The other, pursued …Read more
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1Epistemic Circularity and Epistemic DisagreementIn Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Social Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Intuitions and truthIn Patrick Greenough & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Truth and Realism, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Truth as a democratic valueIn Melissa Schwartzberg & Philip Kitcher (eds.), Truth and evidence, Nyu Press. 2021.
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The Truth of Values and the Values of Truth'In Pritchard, Haddock & MIllar (eds.), Epistemic Value, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Thoughts, the World and Everything in BetweenPhilosophical News 2. 2011.Two of the biggest problems faced by deflationary theories of truth are these: First, how can such views, drawing on such limited resources as they do, provide an adequate and meaningful definition of truth? And second, how can such views be reconciled with our intuition that truth involves a correspondence between thought and world? Christopher Hill has recently claimed that a broadly deflationary view of truth he calls substitutionalism can solve both problems. In this discussion, I argue that…Read more
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On the True and the RealDissertation, Syracuse University. 1995.I argue for the consistency of the following views. First, there can be irreconcilable but equally true ways to categorize or "carve up" the world into objects; second, truth is an objective concept. In short, I claim that one can be a metaphysical pluralist, but an absolutist about truth. ;The first part of the work is taken up with explaining metaphysical pluralism. This is said to be the thesis that all propositions and all facts are relative to conceptual schemes. Thus, the pluralist can mai…Read more
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Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. AlstonTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (4): 750-751. 2007.One of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, William P. Alston is a leading light in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of language. In this volume, twelve leading philosophers critically discuss the central topics of his work in these areas, including perception, epistemic circularity, justification, the problem of religious diversity, and truth
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Polarization and the problem of spreading arroganceIn Alessandra Tanesini & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2020.
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University of ConnecticutDepartment of PhilosophyBoard of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Provost Professor of The Humanities
APA Eastern Division
Areas of Specialization
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
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Internet |
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