1st Edition

Post-Truth, Philosophy and Law

Edited By Angela Condello, Tiziana Andina Copyright 2019
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. Democratic institutions and the rule of law have always been constructed and legitimized by discourses of truth. And so the issue of "post-truth" or "fake truth" can be regarded as a contemporary degeneration of that legitimacy. But what, precisely, is post-truth from... Read more

Table of contents





List of Contributors





 



Post-Truth: What is it About? Introduction, by Tiziana Andina and Angela Condello









  1. Davide Pala, A Political and Deliberative Virtue? The Epistemic Trust in Trustworthy Epistemic Authorities






  2. Angela Condello, After the Ordeal. Law and the Age of Post-Truth






  3. Elisabetta Galeotti, Believing Fake News






  4. Jacopo Domenicucci, Can we trust post-truth? A Trojan Horse in liberal counterspeech.






  5. Sanja Bojanic, Certain trouble: Mockumentaries and Truth






  6. Diego Marconi, Fake news, the crisis of deference, and epistemic democracy






  7. Sara Guindani, From Transparency to "Trumparency"






  8. Luke Mason, Idealism, Empiricism, Pluralism, Law: Legal truth after modernity






9. Enrico Terrone, The Post-truth in Painting









10. Tracy B. Strong, Truth, Facts, Alternates and Persons: or, Whatever Has Happened to Post-modernism?









11. Tiziana Andina, Truth, Lies, and Post-truth









12. Maurizio Ferraris, Who Cares About Privacy? The Documedia Surplus Value









Index

Biography

Angela Condello is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Turin, Italy.



Tiziana Andina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.