A unified account of information, misinformation, and disinformation
| Autor: | Sille Obelitz Søe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Philosophy of science
biology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Metaphilosophy Epistemology Irony Philosophy of language Philosophy Meaning (philosophy of language) biology.animal 060302 philosophy Disinformation Grice 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Misinformation Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Synthese. 198:5929-5949 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-019-02444-x |
| Popis: | In this paper I develop and present a unified account of information, misinformation, and disinformation and their interconnections. The unified account is rooted in Paul Grice’s notions of natural and non-natural meaning (in: Grice (ed) Studies in the way of words. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp 213–223, 1957) and a corresponding distinction between natural and non-natural information (Scarantino and Piccinini in Metaphilosophy 41(3):313–330, 2010). I argue that we can specify at least three specific kinds of non-natural information. Thus, as varieties of non-natural information there is intentionally non-misleading information, unintentionally misleading information—i.e. misinformation—and intentionally misleading information—i.e. disinformation. By shifting the focus from the truth-values of content to the intention/intentionality and misleadingness/non-misleadingness of that content I obtain a unified account that makes room for the potential misleadingness of true content (true disinformation), the potential non-misleadingness of false content (irony), and everything in between. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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