Echo chambers and political philosophy

Thesis

In this thesis, I aim to show what is wrong with echo chambers and what we ought to do about them in a way that is consistent with the commitments of political liberalism. In the first two chapters, I provide my diagnosis and in the latter three chapters the prescription.

I begin by arguing that there is nothing distinctively epistemically problematic about echo chambers – environments that create disparities of trust between ingroup and outgroup o...

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Authors: van Oosterum, K

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-nzp6d0g5q
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: public reason; social media; political philosophy; political liberalism; civility; echo chambers
• Subjects: Philosophy