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 from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public’s retreat into “information silos.”
What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn’t begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts.
McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.
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虽然划分在哲学书籍里，但是并不算很深度的书籍，从历史到当下问题，以及到产生原因和解决方式都有介绍。
评分入门书 讲清楚了post truth的概念、历史以及一些产生机制 以及要持续用真相对抗它（作者结尾说的truth still matters还是蛮reassuring的
评分对现象本身的论述太少
评分这本不错的
评分A bit disappointed as the intra-chapter arguments do not follow a clear line, and many are redundant. Very shallow piece of reading but the notes & bibliography may be helpful to seek deeper understanding of post-modernism.
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