Truth and Evidence (eBook)

NOMOS LXIV

Philip Kitcher, Melissa Schwartzberg (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1160-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth worldThe relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in democratic decision-making increasingly being dismissed. In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the most pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government. In nine timely essays, contributors examine what constitutes political knowledge, who counts as an expert, how we should weigh evidence, and what can be done to address deep disinformation. Together, they address urgent questions such as what facts we require to confront challenges like COVID-19; what it means to #BelieveWomen; and how white supremacy shapes the law of evidence. Essential reading for our fraught political moment, Truth and Evidence considers the importance of truth in the face of widespread efforts to turn it into yet another tool of political power.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Zivilverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: alternative facts • Belief • #BelieveWomen • BelieveWomen • Burden of Proof • C.I. Lewis • Colonialism • contempt • critical race theory • C.S. Peirce • Democracy • Disagreement • Enemy • Epistemic peers • epistemic rationality • Epistemology • Ethics of belief • Evidence • FACTS • Fake News • Fascism • frank ramsey • friend • He Said/She Said • illusions • Influence • Inquiry • Intellectual Arrogance • kavanaugh • Knowledge • Lying • Moral progress • non-reductionism • Persuasion • Political information • Postmodernism • post-truth • Power • Pragmatism • Presumption of innocence • psychology, social and cognitive • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Race • Racism • reason • Testimony • Trump • Trust • Truth • untruth • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1160-2 / 1479811602
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1160-1 / 9781479811601