Carnegie Council Podcasts
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Post-Truth, with Lee C. McIntyre
26 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2018 at 5:12 am.
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"Post-truth doesn't mean that no one cares about truth, it doesn't mean that there isn't any such thing as truth, it just means that there's a critical mass of people who no longer think that they have to form their beliefs based on what's true," says philosopher Lee McIntyre. This is not new; it probably goes back to Galileo and science denial. But today post-truth is more virulent than ever, from Trump to Brexit. What can we do about it?