The Epistemology of Fake News
Edited by Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, and Thomas Grundmann
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction, Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, and Thomas Grundmann
Part I. Analyses of Fake News
1. Speaking of Fake News: Definitions and Dimensions, Romy Jaster and David Lanius
2. Good News, Bad News, Fake News, Duncan Pritchard
3. The Fake News about Fake News, David Coady
4. Conspiracy Theories and Evidential Self-Insulation, M. Giulia Napolitano
Part II. Mechanics of Fake News
5. Enquiry and Normative Deviance: The Role of Fake News in Science Denialism, Filippo Ferrari & Sebastiano Moruzzi
6. Facing Epistemic Authorities: Where Democratic Ideals and Critical Thinking Mislead Cognition, Thomas Grundmann
7. Is Fake News Old News?, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Jeroen de Ridder
8. How Vice Can Motivate Distrust in Elites and Trust in Fake News, Maura Priest
9. Echo Chambers, Fake News, and Social Epistemology, Jennifer Lackey
10. The Dissemination of Fake Science: On the Ranking of Retracted Articles in Google, Emmanuel J. Genot and Erik J. Olsson
Part III. Therapies of Fake News
11. The Virtue of Epistemic Trustworthiness and Re-Posting on Social Media, Sarah Wright
12. Fake News and Epistemic Rot - Or, Why We Are All in This Together, Sanford C. Goldberg
13. An Epistemic Defense of News Abstinence, Sven Bernecker
14. Fake News, False Beliefs, and the Fallible Art of Knowledge Maintenance, Axel Gelfert
15. Trust No One: The (Social) Epistemological Consequences of Belief in Conspiracy Theories, Michael Baurmann and Daniel Cohnitz