Der titelgebende Essay des Bandes stellt die gut hundert Jahre alte Frage, die im Zentrum jenes legendären Briefwechsels zwischen André Jolles und Aby Warburg stand: "Wer ist die Nymphe, woher kommt sie?" Nur äußerlich gleiche sie "einer freigelassenen tartarischen Sklavin", lau…
What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth
"Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon fro…
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the comp…
