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O'Connor, Cailin.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
Fake news.
Information behavior -- Social aspects.
Science -- Philosophy.
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O'Connor, Cailin.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Fake news.
Information behavior -- Social aspects.
Science -- Philosophy.
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The
misinformation
age
:
how
false
beliefs
spread
/ Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall.
by
O'Connor, Cailin.
Yale University Press, 2019.
Call #:
501 O18m
Subjects
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Fake news.
Information behavior -- Social aspects.
Science -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780300251852 (pbk.)
Description:
ix, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-250) and index.
Summary:
"Why should we care about having true
beliefs
? And why do demonstrably
false
beliefs
persist and
spread
despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the
spread
and persistence of
false
beliefs
. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true
beliefs
matter:
false
beliefs
will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? 'The
Misinformation
Age
,'written for a political era riven by 'fake news,' 'alternative facts,' and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of
false
belief, we must understand
how
those forces work in order to fight
misinformation
effectively."--Goodreads.
Other authors:
Weatherall, James Owen.
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