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Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges

Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges

by Mikael Stenmark (Editor), Mikael Stenmark (Editor), Steve Fuller (Editor), Ulf Zackariasson (Editor)

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Synopsis

This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies, anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss and analyse the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy and in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently in different areas of society and different academic disciplines. There is hence a multitude of ways in which to use and understand the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer, and a multitude of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can capture the ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications of the ramifications these phenomena have had.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 212
 Edition: 1st ed. 2018
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 25 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 3319965581
ISBN 13: 9783319965581

Author Bio
Mikael Stenmark is Professor in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. In his research he has explored different conceptions of God, human nature and of the natural world. He has previously co-edited The Customization of Science: The Impact of Religious and Political Wordviews on Contemporary Science (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) with Adam Briggle and Ulf Zackariasson.
Steve Fuller is the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include the emergence of intellectual property in the information society, the interdisciplinary challenges in the natural and social sciences, the political and epistemological consequences of the new biology, science and religion, the future of humanity.

Ulf Zackariasson is Associate Professor in Philospohy of Religion at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. His research interests include American pragmatism (both classical pragmatism and neopragmatism) and the possibilities it offers approaching philosophical problems that are brought about by the human phenomenon of religion, such as questions about the role of religion in the public sphere, religious experience and moral criticism of religion.