Post-Truth, Fake News

Part I. Philosophy in a Post-Truth World

1. Post-truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity and Higher Education
Sharon Rider, Michael A. Peters

2. What Can Philosophy Teach Us About the Post-truth Condition
Steve Fuller

3. On Knowing How to Tell the Truth
Sharon Rider

4. ‘The Solution to Poor Opinions Is More Opinions’: Peircean Pragmatist Tactics for the Epistemic Long Game
Catherine Legg

5. Wisdom’s Limit: Truth, Failure and the Contemporary University
Jeff Malpas

Part II. Politics, the Papers and the Public

6. The History and Practice of Lying in Public Life
Michael A. Peters

7. Donald Trump and the Politics of Lying
Douglas Kellner

8. Post-truth and Critical Pedagogy of Trust
Petar Jandrić

9. Post-truth and the Journalist’s Ethos
George Lăzăroiu

10. As a Matter of Fact: Journalism and Scholarship in the Post-truth Era
Mats Hyvönen

11. Don’t Bring Truth to a Gunfight: Pedagogy, Force, and Decision
Derek R. Ford

Part III. Pedagogy and Postmodernity

12. Education in a Post-truth World
Michael A. Peters

13. A Level Playing Field? Complicit Meritocracy in a Post-truth Era
Liz Jackson, Charles Bingham

14. Beyond Truth and Non-truth
Nesta Devine

15. Changing the World One Premise at a Time: Argument, Imagination and Post-truth
Tracy Bowell

16. The Complexity of Post-truth in Research: An Indigenous Speculation
Carl Te Hira Mika, Jacoba Matapo

17. What Is the Role of Higher Education in the Age of Fake News?
Henry A. Giroux

Keywords: Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Philosophy of Education