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The Promise and Pitfalls of Online ‘Conversations’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2021

Sanford C. Goldberg
Sanford C. Goldberg*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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s-goldberg@northwestern.edu
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Abstract

Good conversations are one of the great joys of life. Online (social media) ‘conversations’ rarely seem to make the grade. In this paper I use some tools from philosophy in an attempt to illuminate what might be going wrong.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 89: How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge , May 2021 , pp. 177 - 193
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2021

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