Post-Truth, Philosophy and Law

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. But what, precisely, is post-truth from a theoretical point of view? Can it actually change perceptions of law, of institutions and political power?

Product details

• Authors: Angela Andina Condello
• Assisted by: Tiziana Andina (Editor), Andina Tiziana (Editor), Angela Condello (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367729028
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72902-8
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Law and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Essays, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & general issues, Political science and theory, Jurisprudence and general issues