1st Edition
Perspectives on Post-Truth
Introduction: Perspectives on Post-Truth
Filippo Ferrari, Anna Maria Lorusso, Sebastiano Moruzzi and Giorgio Volpe
1. The Origins of the Alleged Correlation between Vaccines and Autism: A Semiotic Approach
Giovanna Cosenza and Leonardo Sanna
2. Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass
Massimo Dell’Utri
3. Post-Enquiry and Disagreement: A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists
Filippo Ferrari and Sebastiano Moruzzi
4. Epistemic Bunkers
Katherine Furman
5. The Possibility of Epistemic Nudging
Thomas Grundmann
6. Fake News as Discursive Genre: Between Hermetic Semiosis and Gossip
Anna Maria Lorusso
7. Consuming Fake News: Can We Do Any Better?
Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza
8. The Epistemological Compass and the (Post)Truth about Objectivity
Steve Fuller
Biography
Filippo Ferrari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen and held postdocs positions in the UK, Germany, and Italy. Ferrari is involved with several international research networks and has published extensively on a variety of topics, including two books on truth.
Anna Maria Lorusso is Full Professor in the Department of Arts of Bologna University, where she teaches Semiotics, Semiotics of Culture and Analysis of Information. Her research is focused on the Semiotics of culture, with two main fields of research: logic of information (post-truth, fake news etc..) and cultural memory.
Sebastiano Moruzzi is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. His main research interests concern relativism, the nature of disagreement, ontological theories, theories of truth, theories of vagueness. Moruzzi is also involved in research concerning didactic innovation and he is very active in doing philosophy with children.
Giorgio Volpe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on issues in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic, particularly where those areas intersect. In addition to numerous journal articles, he has written two books on truth.
