2025/05/05 by Raphaël Künstler · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Rhetoric and Communication Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/02691728.2025.2493173
openalex publication_date 2025/05/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14
The term ‘post-truth’ refers, at least in part, to factual disagreements that continue to exist despite free speech and unrestricted access to information and argumentative discourse. One of the main problems in the philosophy of philosophy is how to explain the persistence of intractable theoretical disagreements despite a long and intense history of debate. Bas van Fraassen, Paul Teller, and Anjan Chakravartty have recently suggested that this irreducibility is due to stances. There is an analogy here that suggests that the meta-philosophical model of the stance might also be used to explain post-truth phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to test this hypothesis and offer two different ways of seeing post-truth as a stance.