Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media

Nancy E. Snow is Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Her recent publications include Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement with Jennifer Cole Wright and Michael T. Warren, and Contemporary Virtue Ethics. Maria Silvia Vaccarezza is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Genova (Italy), and Secretary of Aretai – Center on Virtues, based at the same university. Among the journals where she has published lately are: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Introduction

Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Nancy E. Snow

Part I. Perspectives on the Post-Truth Problem

1. Democratic Truth-Seeking, Tribal Epistemologies, and Trust

Nancy E. Snow

2. Democracy, Information Technology, and Virtue Epistemology

Jason Baehr

3. Misinformation and Intentional Deception: A Novel Account of Fake News

Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza

4. Post-Truth, False Balance and Virtuous Gatekeeping

Alfred Archer and Natascha Rietdijk

5. Psychological Processes in Social Media: Implications for Democracy

Shane Connelly, Marina Mery, and Keith Strasbaugh

6. The Halo Effect, Post-Truth Communication, and Practical Wisdom

Claudia Navarini, Allegra Indraccolo, Elena Ricci, and Ricardo Brunetti

Part II: Roles for Virtue

7. Patience, Love of Truth, and Navigating Online Media in an Age of Distraction

Jason Kawall

8. Anger, Moral Address and Claimant Injustice

Alessandra Tanesini

9. Reconceiving Civic Competence for the Digital Age

Rena Beatrice Goldstein

10. The Virtues of the E-Interlocutor

Howard J. Curzer

Part III: Epistemic Partisanship: Pro and Con

11. Partisanship and Epistemic Partiality

Valeria Ottonelli

12. Partisanship as Virtue and Vice

Yuval Eylon

13. Post-factualism, Political Communication and the Role of Citizens

Maria Paola Ferretti