Megan Fritts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5972807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Fritts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fritts |
| SIGNATURE | FRITTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of St. Scholastica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0719-7585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creation as divine absence
The philosophical ‘problem of evil’ goes back at least as far as Epicurus and has remained a powerful argument against the existence of God in contemporary philosophy. The argument is rooted in apparent contradictions between God’s divine attributes and various conditions of human existence. But these contradictions arise only given certain assumptions of what we should expect both God and the world to be like given God’s existence. In this artic…
Must we be perfect
In this paper we offer an argument against supererogation and in favour of moral perfectionism. We argue three primary points: (1) That the putative moral category is not generated by any of the main normative ethical systems, and it is difficult to find space for it in these systems at all; (2) That the primary support for supererogation is based on intuitions, which can be undercut by various other pieces of evidence; and (3) That there are bet…
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
The topic of fake news has received increased attention from philosophers since the term became a favorite of politicians. Notably missing from the conversation, however, is a discussion of fake news and conspiracy theory media as a market. This paper will take as its starting point the account of noxious markets put forward by Debra Satz and will argue that there is a pro tanto moral reason to restrict the market for fake news. Specifically, we …
Online Misinformation and “Phantom Patterns”
In this article, we examine how the availability of massive quantities of data, that is, the “Big Data” phenomenon, contributes to the creation, spread, and harms of online misinformation. Specifically, we argue that a factor in the problem of online misinformation is the evolved human instinct to recognize patterns . While the pattern‐recognition instinct is a crucial evolutionary adaptation, we argue that in the age of Big Data, these capacitie…
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations
Cora Diamond, Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics
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Cora Diamond, Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
The topic of fake news has received increased attention from philosophers since the term became a favorite of politicians. Notably missing from the conversation, however, is a discussion of fake news and conspiracy theory media as a market. This paper will take as its starting point the account of noxious markets put forward by Debra Satz and will argue that there is a pro tanto moral reason to restrict the market for fake news. Specifically, we …
Online Misinformation and “Phantom Patterns”
In this article, we examine how the availability of massive quantities of data, that is, the “Big Data” phenomenon, contributes to the creation, spread, and harms of online misinformation. Specifically, we argue that a factor in the problem of online misinformation is the evolved human instinct to recognize patterns . While the pattern‐recognition instinct is a crucial evolutionary adaptation, we argue that in the age of Big Data, these capacitie…
Must we be perfect
In this paper we offer an argument against supererogation and in favour of moral perfectionism. We argue three primary points: (1) That the putative moral category is not generated by any of the main normative ethical systems, and it is difficult to find space for it in these systems at all; (2) That the primary support for supererogation is based on intuitions, which can be undercut by various other pieces of evidence; and (3) That there are bet…
Creation as divine absence
The philosophical ‘problem of evil’ goes back at least as far as Epicurus and has remained a powerful argument against the existence of God in contemporary philosophy. The argument is rooted in apparent contradictions between God’s divine attributes and various conditions of human existence. But these contradictions arise only given certain assumptions of what we should expect both God and the world to be like given God’s existence. In this artic…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works)