Trust in a Social and Digital World

Mark Alfano and Colin Klein, in conversation with the contributors to our fifth special issue, seek to encourage a wider dialogue on “establishing which epistemic virtues are needed by agents who navigate epistemic networks such as the Internet.” Alfano and Klein suggest that establishing these virtues “requires developing a philosophical model of secure trust that takes such networks into account” and that also “requires investigating the structure and information flows of contemporary online communities.”

• “Trust in a Social and Digital World,” Mark Alfano, Australian Catholic University, AU, and Delft University of Technology, NL, and Colin Klein, Australian National University, AU

• “Fake News, Conspiracy, and Intellectual Vice,” Marco Meyer, University of York, UK

• “Beyond Testimony: When Online Information Sharing is not Testifying,” Emily Sullivan, Delft University of Technology, NL

• “Vices of Distrust,” J. Adam Carter, University of Glasgow, UK and Daniella Meehan, University of Glasgow, UK

• “Richly Trustworthy Allies,” William Tuckwell, University of Melbourne, AU

• “The Trouble With ‘Fake News’,” David Coady, University of Tasmania, AU

• “Algorithm-Based Illusions of Understanding,” Jeroen de Ridder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL

• “Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?” Neil Levy, Macquarie University, AU, and University of Oxford, UK

• “So What if ‘Fake News’ is Fake News?” Jeroen de Ridder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL

• “What Evolutionary Biology Can Tell Us About Cooperation (and Trust) in Online Networks,” Toby Handfield, Monash University, AU

• “What Rationality? A Comment on Levy’s ‘Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?’” Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, UK, and University of Western Australia, AU, Anastasia Kozyreva, Max-Planck Insitute for Human Development, DE, and James Ladyman, University of Bristol, UK

• “When Is it Right to be Wrong? A Response to Lewandowsky, Kozyreva and Ladyman,” Neil Levy, Macquarie University, AU, and University of Oxford, UK

• “Intellectual Vice and Social Networks?” Cailin O’Connor, University of California, Irvine, US