The Badlands Politics & Philosophy Podcast

36- Is the General Public Epistemically Screwed?

July 12, 2019 The Badlands
The Badlands Politics & Philosophy Podcast
36- Is the General Public Epistemically Screwed?
Show Notes

We continue our discussion of expert misinformation, focusing on the roles of publishers, the media, and the general public in the process. Do researchers and publishers put too much focus on the novel and the surprising? Does the general public share any of the epistemic blame, or are they put in an impossible epistemic position?

Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes, Hanna Gunn