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This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups.

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Author:   Derek Egan Anderson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9783030733384

ISBN 10:   3030733386
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Truth in Political Struggle Chapter 2: Politically Contested Terminology Chapter 3: On the Possibility of Semantic Corruption Chapter 4: Toward a Conception of Misinformation as Epistemic Violence Chapter 5: Model-Theoretic Semantics for Politically Contested Terminology Chapter 6: Toward an Intersectional Metasemantics Chapter 7: Power and Regimes of Truth Chapter 8: An Analytic Philosopher’s Unified Theory of Intersectionality Chapter 9: Intersectional Metasemantic Adequacy Chapter 10: A Metasemantics for Intersectionality Chapter 11: Situated Knowledge and the Regime of Truth

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Derek Egan Anderson is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Boston University, USA.

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