Overview
- Analyzes fake news and the "post-truth" phenomenon from a philosophy of technology
- Deals with a highly topical and widely discussed issue
- Answers questions: What is truth? How can we recognize it?
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In a world in which more and more fake news is being spread, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from lies, knowledge from opinion. Disinformation campaigns are not only perceived as a political problem, but the fake news debate is also about fundamental philosophical questions: What is truth? How can we recognize it? Is there such a thing as objective facts or
is everything socially constructed? This book explains how echo chambers and alternative worldviews emerge, it blames post-factual thinking for the current truth crisis, and it shows how we can escape the threat of truth relativism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Thomas Zoglauer (Dr. phil. habil.) teaches philosophy at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and at the Graduate Academy of the University of Stuttgart and is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of technology and applied ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Constructed Truths
Book Subtitle: Truth and Knowledge in a Post-truth World
Authors: Thomas Zoglauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39942-9
Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-39941-2Published: 09 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-39942-9Published: 09 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 149
Topics: Computing Milieux, Computers and Society