Politics, truth, and ideology: A syllabus - by Dan Williams
Democracy, technocracy, Marx, ideology, critical theory, identity politics, standpoint theory, free speech, cancel culture, truth, populism, and post-truth| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Democracy, technocracy, Marx, ideology, critical theory, identity politics, standpoint theory, free speech, cancel culture, truth, populism, and post-truth| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Your political worldview is inevitably simplistic, selective, and distorted.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
There was never a golden age of objectivity, and today’s epistemological problems result from competing visions of reality, not a conflict over the value of truth.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
What role do bias and irrationality play in shaping people's political opinions?| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Fake news, media bias, and the misinformation wars.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
People are "naive realists" about politics, treating their beliefs as objective, unbiased, and unmediated interpretations of self-evident facts. I explore the roots of this harmful delusion.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
In "Public Opinion" (1922), Walter Lippmann argued that the vastness, complexity, and invisibility of the modern world make democracy impossible. He got a lot right.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Are we living through an unprecedented informational crisis, disinformation age, or post-truth era? Drawing on a wide range of evidence and arguments, I give some reasons for scepticism.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Snippet: What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the […]| Econlib
