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Yarburgh Lectures – Consolations for a post-truth world
November 14, 2017 @ 6:30 pm
FREE but booking with eventbrite is required
Tuesday 14 November 2017, 6.30pm
Speaker: Julian Baggini, philosopher
How did we find ourselves in a “post-truth” world of “alternative facts”? And can we get out of it?
From time to time, not very often, it looks as though the world has given philosophy a job to do. Now is such a moment. At last, a big abstract noun – truth – is at the heart of a cultural crisis and philosophers can be called in to sort it out.
Julian Baggini argues that because it is complicated and multi-faceted, truth can easily become the midwife of falsehood. However, by identifying the different ways in which “truth” is established we can restore faith in the value and possibility of truth as a social enterprise. Attaining truth is an achievement we need to work for, together.
Visit Julian Baggini’s website at www.microphilosophy.net/
Location: Room SLB/118, Spring Lane building
Admission: is by free ticket only. Please book below.
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