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The Misinformation Age

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Misinformation Age

By Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

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About the book

The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you know Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there's an obvi...Show more

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9780300234015

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

The Misinformation Age

Format

Hardcover

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