Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479811595
- eISBN:
- 9781479811618
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479811595.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more vexed. Worries about misinformation and disinformation abound, and the value of expertise for democratic decision-making dismissed. ...
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The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more vexed. Worries about misinformation and disinformation abound, and the value of expertise for democratic decision-making dismissed. Whom can we trust to provide us with reliable testimony? In Truth and Evidence, the latest in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher present nine timely essays shedding light on practices of inquiry. These essays address urgent questions including what it means to #BelieveWomen; what factual knowledge we require to confront challenges like COVID-19; and how white supremacy shapes the law of evidence. The first section of the volume analyzes the value of truth for democracy, asking why we should care about knowledge as such. The second section features an exchange about #BelieveWomen on questions of credibility and the ethics of belief. The final section focuses on the question of the relationship between power and truth.Less
The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more vexed. Worries about misinformation and disinformation abound, and the value of expertise for democratic decision-making dismissed. Whom can we trust to provide us with reliable testimony? In Truth and Evidence, the latest in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher present nine timely essays shedding light on practices of inquiry. These essays address urgent questions including what it means to #BelieveWomen; what factual knowledge we require to confront challenges like COVID-19; and how white supremacy shapes the law of evidence. The first section of the volume analyzes the value of truth for democracy, asking why we should care about knowledge as such. The second section features an exchange about #BelieveWomen on questions of credibility and the ethics of belief. The final section focuses on the question of the relationship between power and truth.
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