Book chapter
The post-truth challenge to expertise
Philosophy, Expertise, and the Myth of Neutrality
2024
Abstract
Expertise is a form of knowledge work. This chapter examines this form of knowledge work in a post-truth era, an era in which populist movements reject knowledge claims based on expertise. What is at stake is a dispute over what Foucault would describe as "regimes of truth". This chapter, however, draws on the Marxian tradition to pose the dispute as a worldwide class conflict against knowledge workers in general, the principal divide often coinciding with possession and non-possession of four-year college degrees. The contemporary attack on truth and its determination actually originate with the cultural left associated with the end-of-century talk of postmodernism. It continued with post-structuralism and social constructionism. More recently, however, it has been picked up by the right with more political vigour. Truth, it is argued here, needs to be recovered on a newer post-positivist distinction between truth itself and situated, fallible truth judgments.
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Details
- Title
- The post-truth challenge to expertise
- Creators
- Douglas V. Porpora
- Contributors
- Mirko Farina (Editor)Andrea Lavazza (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Philosophy, Expertise, and the Myth of Neutrality
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85190225151
- Other Identifier
- 991021863476704721