America’s Epistemic Challenges Run Deeper than Social Media - 3 Quarks Daily

America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media - 3 Quarks Daily

Dan Williams at Asterisk: Many people sense that the United States is undergoing an epistemic crisis, a breakdown in the country’s collective capacity to agree on basic facts, distinguish truth from falsehood, and adhere to norms of rational debate. This crisis encompasses many things: rampant political lies; misinformation; and conspiracy theories; widespread beliefs in demonstrable falsehoods (“misperceptions”); intense polarization in preferr…

It’s tempting to blame social media for our epistemic crisis. The truth is more complicated, and more uncomfortable

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