[Ascp-news] Reminder PoD Seminar tomorrow Tuesday 12/8 6pm @ RMIT -- Cathy Legg Getting to Post-Post Truth

[Rebecca Hill]

A reminder that Cathy Legg is speaking tomorrow Tuesday 12/8 6pm at the PHILOSOPHIES OF DIFFERENCE AUGUST SEMINAR SERIES at RMIT City Campus.

Getting to Post-Post-Truth
Pragmatist philosophy teaches that there is no ‘criterion of truth’, and Rorty claims that it follows that we lack any useful notion of truth. I argue that this inference is too hasty, and that an important question for our current moment is how we can ride out necessary ‘epistemic trust-busting’ (Fuller 2017) without ending up in a ‘post-truth’ epistemic hellscape. I propose some suggestions about epistemology as praxis, adapting Charles Peirce’s idea of knowledge as “a cable whose fibres may be ever so slender, provided they are sufficiently numerous and intimately connected”, for the digital age. I argue that as educators our best response to the recent ‘post-truth’ phenomenon is to pay less attention to our theories, in which we show up to truth-sceptics as experts, and more attention to our own epistemic practices, in which we show up to truth-sceptics as fellow persons. Genuine listening and learning can offer practical proof that truth is not dead, notwithstanding the dire theoretical generalisations of sceptics, nihilists and relativists.

BIO: Dr. Catherine Legg teaches philosophy at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her main research interests lie in the philosophies of mind, language, and logic, where she works to bring the distinctive ideas of pragmatist Charles Peirce into mainstream debates; she also has research profiles in AI and education. She is current editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “Pragmatism” entry. In 2008, she inaugurated the field of 'cat metaphysics' with the assistance of the late Bruce, who had a ‘personal chair’. This remains something of a niche area.

REGISTER HERE<https://events.humanitix.com/getting-to-post-post-truth>

WHERE:
RMIT City Campus
Building 80 level 10 room 17
445 Swanston St

All are welcome



Dr Rebecca Hill (she/her)

Senior Lecturer

Responsible Practice Lead

School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

Convener, Philosophies of Difference

Co-Director, Luce Irigaray Circle





Building 9 Level 5 Room 42

City Campus

GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001

School of Media and Communication

RMIT University



ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-3074



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