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Truth & truthfulness : an essay in genealogy / by Williams, Bernard,1929-2003.(CARDINAL)710454;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.
Subjects: Truth.; Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Post-truth / by McIntyre, Lee C.,author.(CARDINAL)355433;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth."Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news", from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into information silos. What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples?claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote?and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism?specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth?in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it" -- publisher's website.
Subjects: Truth.; Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The post-truth era : dishonesty and deception in contemporary life / by Keyes, Ralph.(CARDINAL)149998;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index.
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lying : moral choice in public and private life / by Bok, Sissela.(CARDINAL)513827;
Bibliography: pages 313-315.
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of lies : schemes, scams, fakes, and frauds that have changed the course of history and affect our daily lives / by Goldberg, M. Hirsh.(CARDINAL)732922;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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On bullshit / by Frankfurt, Harry G.,1929-2023.(CARDINAL)767556;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents a theory of bullshit, how it differs from lying, how those who engage in it change the rules of conversation, and how indulgence in bullshit can alter a person's ability to tell the truth.
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
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Would I lie to you? : the amazing power of being honest in a world that lies / by Ketteler, Judi,1974-author.(CARDINAL)499412;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-258).Introduction: Paying attention to honesty -- My strange relationship with honesty -- What is honesty, anyway? -- Is honesty really the best policy? -- Honesty in social situations -- Workplace honesty -- Honesty in friendship -- Honesty in marriage -- Honesty and parenting -- Self-honesty and the stories we tell -- Honest principles.We all want the truth, don't we? In fact, we demand it. We divorce spouses who withhold it. We insist our children practice it. We're hurt when our friends don't divulge it. We're incensed by politicians who invent it. But when it comes to our own behavior, how often do we transgress? Out of diplomacy, kindness, sympathy, and privacy we don't always tell the truth. Yet we often barely notice. So, what happens when we do notice? When we truly focus on the decisions we're making around honesty? When we view our entire life through the lens of honesty? Award-winning journalist and New York Times contributor Judi Ketteler looked at her Facebook page and saw a content mother, a generous friend and sister, a good daughter, and a wife with a happy marriage. It wasn't quite the whole story though. In thinking about all the truths she wasn't revealing, Judi realized that the line between truth and deception was beginning to blur. How often had she herself paltered, exaggerated, concealed, side-stepped, or spun the truth? To answer that question, Judi started her "Honesty Journal." She set out to get to the bottom of her complicated relationship with honesty and confronted her perennial fear of speaking the truth in social situations, among friends, in the workplace, with her kids-and finally, inside her complicated marriage. Blending her personal journey with the latest research into the psychology of deception, Would I Lie to You? is a timely consideration of the joys and pains of truth in a world that seems committed to lying.-- Amazon.com
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 6
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You won't get fooled again / by O'Seanery, Conner,1967-; Reed, Steve,1979-illustrator.;
Subjects: Humor.; Truthfulness and falsehood;
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Plagues of the mind : the new epidemic of false knowledge / by Thornton, Bruce S.(CARDINAL)638586;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-261) and index.1720L
Subjects: Reason.; Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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A philosophy of lying / by Svendsen, Lars Fr. H.,1970-author.; Bagguley, Matt,1971-translator.(CARDINAL)823556;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index."From lying to friends to lies in politics, a wide-ranging examination of the forms and ethics of falsehood. From popular philosopher Lars Svendsen, this book is a comprehensive investigation of lying in everyday life. What exactly is a lie, Svendsen asks, and how does lying differ from related phenomena, such as "bullshit" or being truthful? Svendsen also investigates the ethics of lying--why is lying almost always morally wrong, and why is lying to one's friends especially bad? The book concludes by looking at lying in politics, from Plato's theory of the "noble lie" to the Big Lie of Donald Trump. As phrases like "fake news" and "alternative facts" permeate our feeds, Svendsen's conclusion is perhaps a surprising one: that, even though we all occasionally lie, we are for the most part trustworthy. Trusting others makes one vulnerable, and we will all be duped from time to time. But all things considered, Svendsen contends, truthfulness and vulnerability are preferable to living in a constant state of distrust." --
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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