Keith Raymond Harris's current research is focused on artificial epistemic environments, particularly the epistemic significance of features unique to the online environment. For example, he is interested in the epistemology of fake news, deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and fake persons in the form of bots and trolls. In addition, he is interested in how novel technologies shape individual and group reasoning. His first book, entitled "Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge," concerns these worrying phenomena and the suitability of content moderation as a means of dealing with them.
His previous work has dealt with related issues in applied epistemology and in the metaphysics of minds and cognitive systems. Other previous research includes work on collective intellectual virtues and vices, knowledge-how, scientific progress, and the make-up of group agents.
Keith Raymond Harris's current research is focused on artificial epistemic environments, particularly the epistemic significance of features unique to the online environment. For example, he is interested in the epistemology of fake news, deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and fake persons in the form of bots and trolls. In addition, he is interested in how novel technologies shape individual and group reasoning. His first book, entitled "Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge," concerns these worrying phenomena and the suitability of content moderation as a means of dealing with them.
His previous work has dealt with related issues in applied epistemology and in the metaphysics of minds and cognitive systems. Other previous research includes work on collective intellectual virtues and vices, knowledge-how, scientific progress, and the make-up of group agents.
PhD. Philosophy, University of Missouri. May 2018.