In our “post-truth” political era, there is a lot we can learn from an under-appreciated philosopher who focused on “thinking clearly.”
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The question facing justices isn’t whether the president had the authority to rescind DACA. Rather, it is: Was he honest in his reasons why?
Any amateur politician can engage in lying. President Donald Trump is going further than that. He’s engaging in ‘post-truth’.
As Orwell knew only too well, if the concept of objective truth is moved into the dustbin of history there can be no lies. And if there are no lies there can be no justice, no rights and no wrongs.
People universally believe scientists’ solar eclipse calendars, but vaccine warnings or climate predictions are forms of science that strangely do not enjoy equivalent acceptance.
Reports of facts’ death have been greatly exaggerated. Effective communication jettisons the false dilemma in favor of a more holistic view of how people take in new information on contentious topics.
The global food system has been operating in post-truth mode for decades.
Pundits have been keen to link post-truth to post-modernists, post-positivists or any other ‘postie’. They should turn their energy to forming a real popular front against Trump’s faux populism.
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge
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Michael Hintze Chair of International Security, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Northeastern University
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
