THE PERILS OF DOXASTIC AUTONOMY

Humanology 1 (2025)  [165–198]

AUTHOR(S) / АУТОР(И): Andrei Ionuţ Mărăşoiu , Sandra Cătălina Brânzaru 

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DOI: 10.46793/HumanologyI-1.165M

ABSTRACT / САЖЕТАК:

Progress in digital technologies, especially in social media use and the internet, offers opportunities and enhances risks for what one knows and understands when compared to everyday communications prior to the age of the internet. Can risks be mitigated and opportunities seized, and to what extent would it be rational to do so? We inquire into the variety of epistemic values the consideration of which might shape the epistemic environment of digital communication so that it may apply both to ideal agents but also to everyday users in non-ideal circumstances.

KEYWORDS / КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ:

autonomy; epistemic value; echo chambers; evidence; truthfulness; intellectual character

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