Philosophy class: What to do about disinformation
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Epistemology and philosophy of mind
Click to view the article below and then answer the questions:
What to do about disinformation
Consider the proposition: ‘That claim is true.’ What is the meaning of ‘true’?
Which intellectual virtues would help people discern between factual information and disinformation?
Is it possible to know something if your only source is a platform such as X? Consider competing definitions of knowledge (eg reliabilism and virtue epistemology)
Reflect on what you learnt about the work of Descartes, Locke, Hume and Russell. What would they make of the epistemic problems posed by technology?
Jack Robertson, Queen Elizabeth’s School Barnet
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