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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
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Media and Communication, 2021 How can online communication most effectively respond to misinformation posted on social media? Recent studies examining the content of corrective messages provide mixed results—several studies suggest that politer, hedged messages may increase ...
Cameron Martel +2 more
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Mis- and Disinformation About Covid-19
European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2022 Misinformation and disinformation pose major challenges to effective health communication around the globe during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this special issue, we present research on mis- and disinformation about Covid-19 in the European context and ...
Sabrina Heike Kessler, Philipp Schmid
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Darwinism in metaethics: What if the universal acid cannot be contained? [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this article is to explore the impact of Darwinism in metaethics and dispel some of the confusion surrounding it. While the prospects for a Darwinian metaethics appear to be improving, some underlying epistemological issues remain unclear.
Severini, Eleonora, Sterpetti, Fabio
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Debunking Misinformation and Communicating Critical Events in Vaccine Trials
European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2022 Misinformation and media reports about critical events in vaccine trials challenge public confidence in Covid-19 vaccine safety. Three online experiments using 2×2 between-subjects designs examined the impact of vaccine type, misinformation debunking ...
Paula Memenga +4 more
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, 2014 This paper critically examines coincidence arguments and evolutionary debunking arguments against non-naturalist realism in metaethics. It advances a version of these arguments that goes roughly like this: Given a non-naturalist, realist metaethic, it ...
Bedke, Matthew S.
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Debunking logical grounding: distinguishing metaphysics from semantics [PDF]
, 2020 Many philosophers take purportedly logical cases of ground (such as a true disjunction being grounded in its true disjunct(s)) to be obvious cases, and indeed such cases have been used to motivate the existence of and importance of ground.
Mcsweeney, Michaela
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Might God Help Explain Moral Knowledge?
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 Although owing to proper basicality, phenomenal conservatism, and deliberative indispensability our axiomatic moral judgments seem to be prima facie justified, the question of potential undercutting defeaters can pose a challenge to moral knowledge ...
Baggett David
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Owing to the proliferation of rumors on social media, it is necessary to disseminate debunking information to minimize the harm caused by them. Using content analysis, sentiment analysis, and regression analysis, this study examined the mediating role of
Fan Chao, Xin Wang, Guang Yu
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Evolutionary Debunking and Moral Relativism [PDF]
, 2019 Our aim here is to explore the prospects of a relativist response to moral debunking arguments. We begin by clarifying the relativist thesis under consideration, and we explain why relativists seem well-positioned to resist the arguments in a way that ...
Korman, Daniel Z., Locke, Dustin
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