Kant's Practical Philosophy in the Age of 'Fake News', 'Message Control' and 'Echo Chambers'

Abstract

Kant’s multifaceted work in practical philosophy constitutes a fruitful basis for a normative analysis of the topic of “fake news,” and other issues related to the production, distribution, “framing,” and consumption of political content and discourse in the framework of social media and other online outlets. Most relevant here would be Kant’s essays on education, (moral) psychology, anthropology, as well as (and probably more straightforwardly) his influential reflections on moral, legal, and political philosophy. It is the goal of the panel to bring together a diverse set of Kant-inspired projects that further develop, in the light of these contemporary sets of challenges, central Kantian ideas such as the public and private use of reason, the relation between ethics and politics, the role of emotions in political discourse and their relation to reason, as well as structural bases for truth-seeking in politics.

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