Epistemic virtues and ‘fake news’ : what are we missing?

• Main Author: Chang, Melissa Shuxian
• Other Authors: Andres Carlos Luco
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Media law, ethics and policy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76558
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

‘Fake news’ clearly poses a problem to society and our institutions. There appears to be an inability to differentiate the true from the false, if not an embrace of the untrue. This embrace of the untrue poses many interesting questions for epistemology: the study of knowledge and justified belief....