"Trust, Expertise and Hostile Epistemology": A Conversation with C. Thi Nguyen

DMZ - BLICKWINKEL ¦ Matthias Walter KOMMENTAR David Hume solves the concept of causality in a radical way. Internal sensory perception (immanent perception) presupposes an external cause that is located beyond the physical body. In doing so, the diversity of the effects of an analogous diversity corresponds to the causes – a principle that seems to arrange the structure of our external world of experience as the law of causality. Numerous philos…

"Trust, Expertise and Hostile Epistemology": A Conversation with C. Thi Nguyen

Much of the current misinformation crisis seems to derive from misplaced trust. In this conversation, C. Thi Nguyen discusses his idea of “hostile epistemology”, which examines how environmental factors exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities. As finite beings with limited cognitive resources, we constantly reason in a rush due to overwhelming information, leaving gaps that can be exploited. Given this, how can individuals with limited understandi…