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CAPD: A Year in Review

  Since it was launched a year ago, the Changing Attitudes in Public Discourse multidisciplinary project has come a long way. We’ve hosted two workshops, and an international c…

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Patrick Connolly "Truth, Fiction and LLMs" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Truth, fiction and LLMs

The trope of the working novelist isolated for months at a time, hunched over a desk with yellow stained and repetitively strained fingers clacking away on a keyboard is no more. Today’s author nee…

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Jack Kwong "On Hope and Despair Part II" on Open for Debate #Philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

On Hope and Despair (Part II)

In the previous post, I raised the possibility that people can hope without hope, that is, hope for things that they simultaneously despair or feel unhopeful about. Far from being a contradiction, …

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Michael Klenk "Rethinking Manipulation: The Indifference View of Manipulation" on Open for Debate. The final post in a six part series. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Rethinking Manipulation: The Indifference View of Manipulation

In the series’ Unpacking Manipulation in the Digital Age,’ the previous five posts covered the rise of problematic forms of digital influence (Posts 1, 2, and 3), the need to demarcate …

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Michael Klenk "Unravelling the Complexity of Manipulation Theories" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Unravelling the Complexity of Manipulation Theories

In the previous four posts of this series on ‘Unpacking Manipulation in the Digital Age'(Post 1; Post 2; Post 3; Post 4), I argued that more attention to different types of social influence i…

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Second post in the series by @michaelklenk on social influence and manipulation on the digital age blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

The Dark Side of Digital Influence

In the previous post, I outlined three reasons for paying closer attention to social influence in the digital landscape: the proliferation of social influence, the informational empowerment of soci…

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Open for Debate is publishing an excellent series of posts by Michael Klenk on social influence and manipulation in the digital age. Here is the first post which might be of interested to some of you. #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Unpacking Manipulation for the Digital Age

Public debate is shaped partly by human social influence, and we routinely distinguish different types of social influence, such as persuasion, coercion, and manipulation. While persuasion and coer…

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"Fundamentalism as a contested concept" by Nora Kindermann on Open for Debate #Philosophy #fundamentalism blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Fundamentalism as a contested concept

Fundamentalism is a contested concept. In ordinary language and public discourse, it is applied to actions, beliefs, or groups that we condemn, disagree with, or wish to delegitimize. Highly mediat…

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Tuckwell and Shang "Zetetic standpoint epistemology" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Zetetic standpoint epistemology

A central claim of standpoint theory is that the oppressed have an epistemic advantage over the dominant with respect to the workings of oppression. This ‘epistemic advantage thesis’ ranges over is…

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Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken and Elion Michaelson "Can Machines Manipulate Us?" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Can Machines Manipulate Us?

YouTube, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, and chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard—all of them are manipulating you. More specifically, their algorithms are manipulating you.…

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A new post by Katherine Furman on the Epistemology of Rumours #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

The Epistemology of Rumours

Rumours disrupt official lines of communication and can derail policy. During the 2013 – 2016 West African Ebola outbreak, rumours were that medics were stealing bodies to be sold for parts on the …

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A magnificent post about the value of complaints by Kate Norlock on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

We Should Complain

I write about complaint to reduce its stigma. I teach classic philosophical texts that argue against it, so I realize the stigma is longstanding. Complaining is soft, Aristotle says. It’s undignifi…

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Some of you might be interested in this post by Lucienne Spencer and Matthew Broome on Open for Debate. Warning: The post discusses suicide. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Suicidal Ideation or ‘Malingering’? A case of Testimonial Injustice.

Introduction According to the Office for National Statistics, 5,275 suicides were registered in England and Wales in 2022[1]. Nevertheless, reports of the intent to kill oneself are not always met …

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some of you might be interested in part 2 of Extremism and the Good Life by Josh DiPaolo on Open for Debate #philosophy @PublicHumility blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Extremism and the Good Life – Part 2

In the previous post I have argued that we need to adopt  a more complex picture of extremists. They are intellectual and practical agents responsive to both intellectual and practical goods. We ne…

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"Extremism and the Good Life" Josh DiPaolo on Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Extremism and the Good Life – Part 1

“Want to live the good life? Join an extremist group!” This odd piece of advice flies in the face of thousands of years of ethical theorizing, not to mention common sense. In ancient Greece, Aristo…

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Maurits Bekkers "How to Become an Incel" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

In-Between Identities: The Online and Offline World of Incels

Introduction Discussions around incels – involuntary celibates – have become prevalent across popular social media platforms such as X/Twitter. However, it is not always clear who exactly is behind…

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A great post by Nadja El Kassar on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Semmelweis, Socratic Ignorance and Listening in an Unjust World

Ignaz Semmelweis, a physician working in a charity hospital in Vienna in the mid 19th century, faced a tragic puzzle: he saw that the rates of puerperal (childbed) fever and consequent deaths were …

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blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford… Kunimasa Sato on questions and epistemic injustice on Open for Debate @PublicHumility

Exploratory Epistemic Justice and Question-Making Practices

In questioning practices, people not only ask questions but also contemplate how their questions can be precisely expressed and attempt to discover a right question. For instance, we may confront s…

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A wonderful post by @TareeqJalloh about #epistemic_injustice and #drill on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Drill Music and Epistemic Injustice

What are the legitimate ways of interpreting a musician’s work and words? This might seem like an abstract philosophical question, but it isn’t. This question matters because sometimes music is use…

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A new post by Alkis Kotsonis on the virtue of epistemic collaborativeness on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

A Study of the Virtue of Epistemic Collaborativeness

Agents can achieve far greater things when working in groups than individually. For instance, some of the most important scientific theories and findings have been the product of epistemic collabor…

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A great post by Ian Kidd and Havi Carel on Institutional Opacity at Open for Debate @PublicHumility blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Opacity and trust in institutions

A typical lament of those, like academics, who work in large institutions is that so many of the decisions and operations of institutional life are opaque. This is often expressed in reports of dec…

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