Journal article
It’s our epistemic environment, not our attitude toward truth, that matters
- Abstract:
- The widespread conviction that we are living in a post-truth era rests on two claims: that a large number of people believe things that are clearly false, and that their believing these things reflects a lack of respect for truth. In reality, however, fewer people believe clearly false things than surveys or social media suggest. In particular, relatively few people believe things that are widely held to be bizarre. Moreover, accepting false beliefs does not reflect a lack of respect for truth. Almost everyone’s beliefs are explained by rationally warranted trust in some sources rather than others. This allows us to explain why people have false beliefs.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/08913811.2022.2149108
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Critical Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 1-2
- Pages:
- 94-111
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-11-14
- DOI:
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1933-8007
- ISSN:
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0891-3811
- Language:
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English
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1304896
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pubs:1304896
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2022-11-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Neil Levy
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/./), which permits unrestricted use, distri-bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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