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Symmetry as a guide to post-truth times : a response to Lynch

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Fuller, Steve (2021) Symmetry as a guide to post-truth times : a response to Lynch. Analyse & Kritik, 43 (2). pp. 395-411. doi:10.1515/auk-2021-0023

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Abstract

William Lynch has provided an informed and probing critique of my embrace of the post-truth condition, which he understands correctly as an extension of the normative project of social epistemology. This article roughly tracks the order of Lynch’s paper, beginning with the vexed role of the ‘normative’ in Science and Technology Studies, which originally triggered my version of social epistemology 35 years ago and has been guided by the field’s ‘symmetry principle’. Here the pejorative use of ‘populism’ to mean democracy is highlighted as a failure of symmetry. Finally, after rejecting Lynch’s appeal to a hybrid Marxian–Darwinism, Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes are contrasted en route to what I have called ‘quantum epistemology’.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Truthfulness and falsehood, Social epistemology, Symmetry, Populism
Journal or Publication Title: Analyse & Kritik
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
ISSN: 2365-9858
Official Date: 22 December 2021
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22 December 2021Published
Volume: 43
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 395-411
DOI: 10.1515/auk-2021-0023
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access

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