KFU. Card publication. Epistemic Responsibility, Rights, and Duties During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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EPISTEMIC RESPONSIBILITY, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Form of presentation

Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2022

Язык

английский

Authors, employees of KFU

Karimov Artur Ravilevich, author

Other authors

Farina Mirko , author

Lavazza Andrea , author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Karimov A, Lavazza A, Farina M., Epistemic Responsibility, Rights, and Duties During the Covid-19 Pandemic//Social Epistemology. - 2022. - Vol., Is.. - .

Annotation

We start by introducing the idea of echo chambers. Echo chambers are social and epistemic structures in which opinions, leanings, or beliefs about certain topics are amplified and reinforced due to repeated interactions within a closed system; that is, within a system that has a rather homogeneous sample of sources or people, which all share the same attitudes towards the topics in question. Echo chambers are a particularly dangerous phenomena because they prevent the critical assessment of sources and contents, thus leading the people living within them to deliberately ignore or exclude opposing views. In the second part of this paper, we argue that the reason for the appearance of echo chambers lies in the adoption of what we call 'epistemic vices'. We examine which vices might be responsible for their emergence, and in doing so, we focus on a specific one; 'epistemic violence'. In assessing and evaluating the role of this epistemic vice, we note that it can be triggered by epistemic contexts characterized by high stakes that may turn ordinary intellectual virtues (such as skepticism) into vices (such as denialism). In the third part of this contribution, we suggest a way to deal with echo chambers. The solution focuses on advocating a responsibilist pedagogy of virtues and vices that -we claim- might be capable of preventing their emergence.

Keywords

ethical communication; epistemic vice; filter bubbles and echo chambers; COVID-19 pandemic

The name of the journal

Social Epistemology

URL

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2022.2077856?journalCode=tsep20

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Karimov Artur Ravilevich	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Farina Mirko	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Lavazza Andrea	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2022-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2022	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Karimov A, Lavazza A, Farina M., Epistemic Responsibility, Rights, and Duties During the Covid-19 Pandemic//Social Epistemology. - 2022. - Vol., Is.. - .	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=268867&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Social Epistemology	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	We start by introducing the idea of echo chambers. Echo chambers are social and epistemic structures in which opinions, leanings, or beliefs about certain topics are amplified and reinforced due to repeated interactions within a closed system; that is, within a system that has a rather homogeneous sample of sources or people, which all share the same attitudes towards the topics in question. Echo chambers are a particularly dangerous phenomena because they prevent the critical assessment of sources and contents, thus leading the people living within them to deliberately ignore or exclude opposing views. In the second part of this paper, we argue that the reason for the appearance of echo chambers lies in the adoption of what we call 'epistemic vices'. We examine which vices might be responsible for their emergence, and in doing so, we focus on a specific one; 'epistemic violence'. In assessing and evaluating the role of this epistemic vice, we note that it can be triggered by epistemic contexts characterized by high stakes that may turn ordinary intellectual virtues (such as skepticism) into vices (such as denialism). In the third part of this contribution, we suggest a way to deal with echo chambers. The solution focuses on advocating a responsibilist pedagogy of virtues and vices that -we claim- might be capable of preventing their emergence.	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject		ru_RU
dc.title	Epistemic Responsibility, Rights, and Duties During the Covid-19 Pandemic	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU