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Author Vincent F. Hendricks

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Vincent F. Hendricks

Vincent F Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Elite Researcher of the Danish State and Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He is the author of many books, among them Infostorms (Springer Nature 2016), Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2007) The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Springer, 2001). He is also the author and editor of numerous papers and books on bubbles studies, formal epistemology, methodology and logic. Hendricks was Editor-in-Chief of Synthese and Synthese Library 2005-2015.

Attention Economics and Fake News

Vincent F. Hendricks
Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics
The author presented the following lecture at the recent the annual celebration of The University of Copenhagen. World Economic Forum recently declared misinformation and digital wildfires as some of the...

Science and Journalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Vincent F. Hendricks
Arts & Culture, Science & Medicine
Some years ago, when I was about to receive the Elite Research Prize from The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, my son, Milton, 8 years old back, then asked me: ”Dad, I have to ask you...

The Sharing of Nude Photos is Status Economics on Steroids

Kathrine Elmose and Vincent F. Hendricks
Politics & Economics
Monday 28 November 2016 Nude photos have become a valuable commodity in the digital marketplace with both sellers and buyers. But in the information age it would indeed be calamitous if we haul social...

Time for Something New and Completely Different? Political Social Responsibility

Vincent F. Hendricks
Politics & Economics
Political social responsibility, as a supplement to corporate social responsibility and scientific social responsibility, is exactly what is needed in light of Brexit and the recent...

Setting the Record Straight on Post-factual Democracy

Vincent F. Hendricks and David Budtz Pedersen
Politics & Economics
BuzzFeed just published a piece demonstrating that post-factual tendencies in politics are alarming on the rise on hyperpartisan Facebook pages. Indeed, everybody is talking about post-truth democracy these...

The Brute Force of Information

Vincent F. Hendricks and Joachim S. Wiewiura
Politics & Economics
On August 2, 2016 a report was released on the proliferation of digital misinformation and the challenges such information presents to global society and security. The report was released by the Center for...

How Circulating Public Knowledge Creates Major Trouble for Companies

Vincent F. Hendricks and Joachim S. Wiewiura
Politics & Economics
What happens when people start talking about your company on Facebook.
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