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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 ISSN 2365-9858.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0023
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 | ||||
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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 |
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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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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 (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 March 2022 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 March 2022 |
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