The Promise and Pitfalls of Online ‘Conversations’

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89:177-193 (2021)
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Good conversations are one of the great joys of life. Online ‘conversations’ rarely seem to make the grade. In this paper I use some tools from philosophy in an attempt to illuminate what might be going wrong.

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