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The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaignsPhilosophical Psychology (5): 949-968. 2023.Many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the collective irrationality of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, such as partisanship and ideology, exposure to misinformation and conspiracy theories or the effectiveness of public messaging. This paper presents a complementary explanation to epistemic accounts of collective irrationality, focusing on the moral reasons underlying people’s decisions regarding vaccination. We argue that the moralization of COVID-19 risk mitigation measures contributed to t…Read more
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How to Do Things with Information Online. A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Social Networking Platforms as Epistemic EnvironmentsPhilsophy and Technology 35 (77). 2022.This paper proposes a conceptual framework for evaluating how social networking platforms fare as epistemic environments for human users. I begin by proposing a situated concept of epistemic agency as fundamental for evaluating epistemic environments. Next, I show that algorithmic personalisation of information makes social networking platforms problematic for users’ epistemic agency because these platforms do not allow users to adapt their behaviour sufficiently. Using the tracing principle ins…Read more
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