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"The post-truth condition: why we've always been there and why it's unlikely to go away soon" with Steve Fuller. Past Event. Pleasenotelocationchange PartoftheHilaryTermSeminarSeriesorganisedbytheInstituteforScience,InnovationandSociety Although'post-truth'becameOxfordDictionary'swordoftheyearonlyin2016,theconceptisendemictothehistoryofWesternthought,albeittypicallyexistinginanundergroundandsomewhatdisreputablestate.FromtheancientSophiststothe'constructivist'turnacrossmanydisciplinesinthetwentiethcentury,post-truthhasalwaysbeenwithus,howevermuchwewishtodenyitspresence.Thistalk,drawnfromFuller'snewbookon'post-truth',explainsand--toalargeextent--justifiesthevalueofthepost-truthcondition,notwithstandingthepoliticalaberrationsnowadaysassociatedwithit,notleastBrexitandTrump. Aboutthespeaker SteveFullerisAugusteComteProfessorofSocialEpistemologyintheDepartmentofSociologyattheUniversityofWarwick,UK.Originallytrainedinhistoryandphilosophyofscience,Fullerisbestknownforhisfoundationalworkinthefieldof‘socialepistemology’,whichisthenameofaquarterlyjournalthathefoundedin1987aswellasthefirstofhismorethantwentybooks.From2011to2014hepublishedatrilogyrelatingtotheideaofa‘post-’or‘trans-‘humanfuture,allpublishedwithPalgraveMacmillanundertherubricof‘Humanity2.0’.HismostrecentbooksareKnowledge:ThePhilosophicalQuestinHistory(Routledge2015)andTheAcademicCaesar(Sage2016).Hismostrecentbook,Post-Truth:KnowledgeasaPowerGame,ispublishedbyAnthemPressin2018. PartofaSeries: InSISSeminarSeries:Theboundariesoftruth



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