Civility, Trust, and Responding to Echo Chambers. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rodrigues, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Dialogue. Volume 60:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 403
• Page End: 413
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: civility -- epistemic trust -- echo chambers -- conspiracy theories -- applied ethics -- social epistemology; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1017/S0012217321000299
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0012-2173

Abstract

Abstract: Due to the rampant epistemic distrust present in echo chamber members towards outsiders, responding to echo chambers with civil debate is unlikely to lead to any agreement or compromise. Moreover, a civil response may contribute to the echo chamber's inflated sense of epistemic status, which is precisely what needs to be dismantled or diminished if agreement/compromise is to be made possible. When responding to particularly dangerous and resistant echo chambers, a moderately uncivil response may be warranted.