Post-Truth, Fake News Viral Modernity & Higher Education /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peters, Michael A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rider, Sharon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hyvönen, Mats (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Besley, Tina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International education .; Comparative education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational Philosophy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.; Philosophy of Education.

This edited collection brings together international authors to discuss the meaning and purpose of higher education in a "post-truth" world. The editors and authors argue that notions such as "fact" and "evidence" in a post-truth era must be understood not only politica...

Table of Contents:

• Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education
• What Can Philosophy Teach Us About the Post-Truth Condition
• On Knowing How to Tell the Truth
• "The Solution to Poor Opinions is More Opinions": Peircean Pragmatist Tactics for the Epistemic Long Game
• Wisdom's Limit: Truth, Failure, and the Contemporary University
• The History and Practice of Lying in Public Life
• Donald Trump and the Politics of Lying
• Post-Truth and Critical Pedagogy of Trust
• Post-Truth and the Journalist's Ethos
• As a Matter of Fact: Journalism and Scholarship in the Post-Truth Era
• Don't Bring Truth to a Gunfight: Pedagogy, Force, and Decision
• Education in a Post-Truth World
• A Level Playing Field? Complicit Meritocracy in a Post-Truth Era
• Beyond Truth and Non-Truth
• Changing the World One Premise at a Time: Argument, Imagination and Post-Truth
• The Complexity of Post-Truth in Research: An Indigenous Speculation
• What is the role of Higher Education in the Age of Fake News?.