Metasemantics and intersectionality in the misinformation age : truth in political struggle / Derek Egan Anderson.
2021
BJ1421 .A53 2021
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Title
Metasemantics and intersectionality in the misinformation age : truth in political struggle / Derek Egan Anderson.
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9783030733391 (electronic bk.)
3030733394 (electronic bk.)
9783030733384
3030733386
3030733394 (electronic bk.)
9783030733384
3030733386
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-73339-1 doi
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BJ1421 .A53 2021
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121
Summary
This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups. Derek Egan Anderson is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Boston University, USA.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Truth in Political Struggle
Chapter 2: Politically Contested Terminology
Chapter 3: On the Possibility of Semantic Corruption
Chapter 4: Toward a Conception of Misinformation as Epistemic Violence
Chapter 5: Model-Theoretic Semantics for Politically Contested Terminology
Chapter 6: Toward an Intersectional Metasemantics
Chapter 7: Power and Regimes of Truth
Chapter 8: An Analytic Philosophers Unified Theory of Intersectionality
Chapter 9: Intersectional Metasemantic Adequacy
Chapter 10: A Metasemantics for Intersectionality
Chapter 11: Situated Knowledge and the Regime of Truth.
Chapter 2: Politically Contested Terminology
Chapter 3: On the Possibility of Semantic Corruption
Chapter 4: Toward a Conception of Misinformation as Epistemic Violence
Chapter 5: Model-Theoretic Semantics for Politically Contested Terminology
Chapter 6: Toward an Intersectional Metasemantics
Chapter 7: Power and Regimes of Truth
Chapter 8: An Analytic Philosophers Unified Theory of Intersectionality
Chapter 9: Intersectional Metasemantic Adequacy
Chapter 10: A Metasemantics for Intersectionality
Chapter 11: Situated Knowledge and the Regime of Truth.