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Digital Solipsism

PH202
Module 3: Echo Chambers and Fractured Worlds
3 Lessons

How personalised realities erode the common world on which moral and political life depends.

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Echo Chambers and Fractured Worlds

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Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles: When Algorithms Become Mirrors

You will understand how personalised digital environments can trap us in self-reinforcing loops of information, why this differs from simple disagreement, and what it means for how we know what is true.

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Arendt and the Common World

You will understand how Hannah Arendt's concept of the common world illuminates why algorithmic fragmentation threatens not just our connection to others, but the very foundation of shared moral and political life.

25 min
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Fragmented Moral Truth: Relativism or Pluralism?

You will understand the philosophical difference between moral relativism and pluralism, and why that distinction matters when people who inhabit different algorithmic worlds struggle to find common ethical ground.

25 min
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