Volume 40, 2024
Conflict, Crisis, and Catastrophe
Timothy Kirschenheiter
Pages 201-205
https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday202440115
Response to Carey
Two Counterexamples to Carey on Misinformation
In this paper, I consider Brandon Carey¡¯s account of misinformation and raise two counterexamples against it. I argue that while Carey¡¯s account is an improvement on prior accounts of misinformation, it still fails. While I am unsure how exactly to rectify this failure, I argue that a correct account of misinformation needs both a tighter connection between misinformation and its negative epistemic impacts and some limiting condition concerning the venue/context in which misinformation is presented.