Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Constitution of KnowledgeCondition: NewSubtitle: A Defense of TruthEAN: 9780815738862ISBN: 9780815738862Publisher: Brookings InstitutionFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/22/2021Description: Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts. Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In 2016 Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth in a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories, and Donald Trump and his troll armies continued to do the same. Social media companies struggled to keep up with a flood of falsehoods, and too often didn't even seem to try. Experts and some public officials began wondering if society was losing its grip on truth itself. Meanwhile, another new phenomenon appeared: cancel culture. At the push of a button, those armed with a cellphone could gang up by the thousands on anyone who ran afoul of their sanctimony. In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the Constitution of Knowledgeour social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do soand how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 678gAuthor: Jonathan RauchGenre: Law & PoliticsISBN-10: 0815738862Item Width: 26mmRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Constitution of Knowledge
Title: The Constitution of Knowledge
Subtitle: A Defense of Truth
EAN: 9780815738862
ISBN: 9780815738862
Release Date: 06/22/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Genre: Law & Politics
ISBN-10: 0815738862
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Constitution of Knowledge : a Defense of Truth
Language: English
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Political Process / Media & Internet, Epistemology, Web / Social Media, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, General, Censorship, Civics & Citizenship, United States / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Jonathan Rauch
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Computers, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
