The dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate...

McKenna’s version of non-ideal inquiry epistemology combines pessimism about the epistemic capacities of individuals with certain forms of optimism about the influence of social institutions on our...

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Workshop on collective beliefs explores their formation, dynamics, and impacts, including echo chambers, polarization, and group identity effects.

My guest this week is Aidan McGlynn, a senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Edinburgh and author of the book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. We discuss the various facets of epistemic ...

Philosophy & Technology - Prosocial behaviour–promoting virtual reality (PBP-VR) has become an increasingly popular tool in workplace anti-sexism and anti-racism training. These...

Eliana Mary Horn (2026) proposes an account of how we ought to understand prosocial behavior-promoting virtual reality that forms a middle ground between an overly optimistic and overly pessimistic pe...

Abstract. The redundancy theory says that truth predicates make no descriptive contribution to sentences that contain them. The theory has strong initial p

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What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

An agent’s epistemic prospects depend on a combination of that agent’s individual characteristics and features of that agent’s epistemic environment. Such factors cannot always be cleanly separated. O...

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. The sycophantic behavior of LLMs has been documented to cause significant harm, such as feeding users’ .....

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

The flow of evidence is pervasively impacted by social dynamics. One straightforward illustration of this point is that individuals routinely give evidence to one another. If I want you to believe tha...

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

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