Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240100914

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240100914

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Trust and Distrust in Social Epistemic Networks. This project aims to discover critically-needed understandings of the social causes and consequences of ‘fake news’. It will do this by investigating and mapping the relationship between ‘epistemic vices’ and people’s acceptance of misinformation and disinformation (e.g. conspiracy theories). It will bring together approaches from experimental philosophy, natural language processing, social network analysis, and normative reflection to provide new insights regarding distrust and intellectual vice, thus significantly advancing knowledge of the ‘dark side’ of social epistemology. Results will lead to urgently required guidance regarding the features of social networks that exacerbate or buffer against the manifestation of these vices.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2024

End Date: 31-12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $478,013.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Epistemology | Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Epistemology | Expanding Knowledge In Philosophy and Religious Studies | Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action) | Philosophy

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