Constructed truths : truth and knowledge in a post-truth world / Thomas Zoglauer.
2023
BD171
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Title
Constructed truths : truth and knowledge in a post-truth world / Thomas Zoglauer.
Author
Zoglauer, Thomas, author.
Uniform Title
Konstruierte Wahrheiten. English
ISBN
9783658399429 (electronic bk.)
3658399422 (electronic bk.)
9783658399412
3658399422 (electronic bk.)
9783658399412
Published
Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer Vieweg, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 149 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-658-39942-9 doi
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BD171
Dewey Decimal Classification
121
Summary
In a world where more and more fake news is being spread, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from lies and knowledge from opinion. Disinformation campaigns are not only perceived as a political problem, but the fake news debate is also about fundamental philosophical questions: What is truth? How can we recognize it? Is there such a thing as objective facts or is everything socially constructed? This book explains how echo chambers and alternative worldviews emerge, blames post-factual thinking for the current truth crisis, and shows how we can escape the threat of truth relativism. The contents: - Fake news - Post-truth epistemology - Theories of truth - Information and knowledge The target groups: - Philosophers - Media scientists - Political scientists - Social scientists. The author: Thomas Zoglauer (Dr. phil. habil.) teaches philosophy at the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus-Senftenberg and at the Graduate Academy of the University of Stuttgart and is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of technology and applied ethics. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Table of Contents
Filter bubbles and echo chambers
Conspiracy theories
Fake news
Epistemology of the post-factual
Theories of truth
Information and knowledge.
Conspiracy theories
Fake news
Epistemology of the post-factual
Theories of truth
Information and knowledge.