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Post Truth And The Epistemological Crisis Taylor Francis Online

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Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. 2023, Post-Truth and the Epistemological Crisis The polarization and charges of "post-truth" that mark contemporary politics may have its source, ultimately, in a crisis of epistemology, which is characterized by a tension between different forms of naïve realism-the view that... Perhaps too schematically, those on the right tend to be first-person naïve realists in treating economic and social realities as accessible to the ordinary political participant by simple common sense, while those on the... In treating reality as transparent enough to be legible either to oneself or to a group of experts, both sides tend to treat disagreement as a motivational problem-a problem of bad faith, motivated reasoning,...

In obviating the possibility of genuine disagreement, the epistemological crisis is quite naturally transformed into a political crisis. The post-truth arguments about knowledge being clearly a product of history, power, and the central aspect of this era's ideological judgment are the masses' perspectives. Popularly associated with a disregard for the veracity of political disclosure. The truth is determined solely by the existing listeners' manifested beliefs and values that people hold dear, rather than by the evidence presented. This world of lies and deception is supported and enabled by assertions of one or the other truth. Each party's lies are based on claims that they are speaking the truth while their opponent is lying!

Thus, not only is there a cynical use of lying, but there is also a cynical use of truth to ground these liesthis is the contemporary condition, which has been caused to a large... Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit... The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from... To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This article is a critique of the notion of post-truth.

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, I argue that the epistemological crisis suggested by the notion of post-truth is epiphenomenal to a more general crisis of authority, a crisis that is poorly understood... I also argue that revisiting Arendt’s account of authority can help us elucidate the vexed dynamics of authority in modern society, as well as the dynamics behind its current crisis. The post-truth situation is a loss of authority that is political before it presents as epistemological. Effectively addressing this situation, I conclude, is a much more challenging and complex proposition than what is suggested in the literature on post-truth. Keywords: Post-truth, Authority, Crisis, Hannah Arendt, Populism Whenever the prefix “post” insinuates itself into our thinking, there is good reason to think again.

This ubiquitous latinism is conspicuously void of information. “Post” simply suggests that something is following upon, and supposedly surpassing, something else, without telling us anything specific about the nature of what follows, or the nature of what it follows upon, or how... “Postmodernism” is a famous case in point (cf. Foucault, 1984: 39). A more recent case in point is the notion that these are “post-truth” or “post-factual” times (see, e.g., d’Ancona, 2017; Block, 2019; Hyvönen, 2018; Kalpokas, 2019; McIntyre, 2018; Newman, 2019; Sim, 2019). In the deluge of academic, journalistic, and hybrid writing that has brought this notion to the fore, it has been suggested that we are in the midst of a “new war on truth” (d’Ancona,...

Among the notable casualties in the new war we find, in addition to “truth,” “facts,” and “reason,” also “the Enlightenment,” which is now, we are told, “really dead,” since the Enlightenment “displaced the primacy... This article is a critique of the notion of post-truth, and a reconsideration of the situation to which this notion inadequately refers. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, I argue that the epistemological crisis suggested by the misnomer “post-truth” is epiphenomenal to a more general crisis of authority, the nature of which has so far... Revisiting Arendt’s account of authority can help us elucidate both the general dynamics of authority in a modern democracy and the specific dynamics behind its current crisis. My main errand in this piece is thus to change perspectives on post-truth, hopefully for the benefit of our understanding of what is ailing us. This amounts to a look at what I take to be the big picture from which the purported post-truth situation is a cut-out and a blow-up.

What follows is a zooming-out from the epistemological notions that dominate the literature and a proposal to approach the post-truth situation differently, analytically as well as politically. Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages. The New Scientist recently declared that “Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come” and even Barack Obama has warned of an “epistemological crisis.” Following the election of Donald Trump for the second time, the... Can epistemology explain the challenges of "post-truth"? Does voter ignorance threaten democracy?

Is political disagreement epistemically valuable or harmful? This extremely timely introduction to political epistemology tackles these questions and many more. In a clear and engaging style, Michael Hannon and Elise Woodard examine the following key topics: the relation between truth and politics, including the arguments of Plato, Mill and Rawls; the epistemology of democracy,... With the inclusion of chapter summaries and further reading, Political Epistemology: An Introduction is the ideal starting place for anyone studying this fascinating and rapidly growing topic, whether in epistemology, political philosophy, or applied... It will also be of interest to students and researchers in related fields, such as political science, law, and public policy.

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