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  1. “A Place of very Arduous interfaces”. Social Media Platforms as Epistemic Environments with Faulty Interfaces.Lavinia Marin - forthcoming - Topoi:1-11.
    I argue that the concept of an epistemic interface is a useful one to add to the epistemic ecology toolkit in order to enrich our investigations concerning the complex epistemic phenomena arising on social media. An epistemic interface is defined as any informational interface (be it technical, human or institutional) that facilitates the transfer of epistemic goods from one epistemic environment to its outside, be that another epistemic environment or a person. When assessing the kinds of epistemic environments emerging on (...)
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  • Chatting with Bots: AI, Speech-Acts, and the Edge of Assertion.Iwan Williams & Tim Bayne - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    This paper addresses the question of whether large language model-powered chatbots are capable of assertion. According to what we call the Thesis of Chatbot Assertion (TCA), chatbots are the kinds of things that can assert, and at least some of the output produced by current-generation chatbots qualifies as assertion. We provide some motivation for TCA, arguing that it ought to be taken seriously and not simply dismissed. We also review recent objections to TCA, arguing that these objections are weighty. We (...)
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