Dan Williams
@danwilliamsphil
Philosopher, University of Sussex. Tweets in personal capacity. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Society. Writes at: https://t.co/MniDhzFnow
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*New paper * in Political Communication 📓:
What matters more for believing disinformation: social media use, political views, or a conspiracy mindset?
First, some good news: in most places, only a minority “fell” for the debunked claims which were used to justify invading Ukraine. 🧵↓
'Is There a Duty to Speak Your Mind?'
Published today in an issue on Epistemic Autonomy.
It starts with my favorite epigraph yet by Bo Burnham.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Join us today at 4:30PM @ Senate House for Sarah Fine's talk, 'Not at Home.' Can't wait!
This is our penultimate talk of the series. Next week, Dan Williams joins to discuss misinformation.
Details:
-philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/not-hom…
-philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/focus-m…
Hope to see you there!!
Does widespread alarm about “disinformation” reflect an objective and apolitical concern with dangerous lies or a thinly veiled political project designed to demonise anti-establishment perspectives?, asks Dan Williams
conspicuouscognition.com/p/debunking-di…
'In politics, people are
My paper, 'Existential Risk and Equal Political Liberty' (co-authored with Joseph Porter), is now forthcoming at Asian Journal of Philosophy. You can access the penultimate version at the link below.
philpapers.org/rec/PORERA
📢 Seminar Alert: 'Not At Home' by Sarah Fine Sarah Fine (Cambridge)
📅 Thurs, 23 May 2024
🕠 4:30PM - 6:00PM
📍 Room 243, Senate House
Part of The Practical, the Political, and the Ethical series. See you there!
philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/not-hom…
Fascinating essay and thread Dan Williams on the complexities of human morality -
conspicuouscognition.com/p/strategic-al…
of interest to Rutger Bregman Amitav Ghosh
Ben Tappin Dan Williams Fits pretty well with this theory:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Great talk by the always excellent Sacha Altay on 'Rethinking the Problem of Misinformation'. Highly recommend! youtube.com/watch?v=Yms5Df…
References to the work of many people in the essay, including: Geoffrey Miller Moshe Hoffman manvir singh Lionel Page David Pinsof Randy Nesse Rutger Bregman Robert L. Trivers Will Storr