Book chapter
Doxastic Addiction and Effective Interventions
The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, pp.379-393
Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press
2025
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190949945.013.18
Abstract
We are consumers of drugs and news, and sometimes call ourselves addicts of one or both. This chapter take the analogy between drug addiction and news addiction seriously in order to argue for more effective ways to treat doxastic addicts and restrictions on speech acts related to doxastic addiction. The chapter defines doxastic addiction and relates this type of addiction to echo chambers and fake news. It also show how this analysis directs attention to social and emotional causal factors in testimonial belief, innovative interventions to help those trapped in echo chambers, and new forms of regulation that can make it harder for echo chambers to form.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Doxastic Addiction and Effective Interventions
- Creators
- Carrie Figdor - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Jennifer Lackey (Editor) - Northwestern UniversityAidan McGlynn (Editor) - University of Edinburgh
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, pp.379-393
- Series
- Oxford Handbooks
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190949945.013.18
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York, NY
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984813290402771
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