Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar
13 November 2018, 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Institute of Philosophy
Seminar
Gordon Room, G34, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Speaker: Eric Mandelbaum, CUNY
Title: Epistemic Chaos
Propaganda is all around us, and has been for a
long, long time. As such, it might seem like the current scare about
propaganda is a bit of a parochial moral panic. In this talk I address two
questions: 1) Is propaganda inherently bad, so bad that we shouldn't engage in
it? And 2) Is the problem of propaganda getting worse? I bring relevant results
from cognitive science--both classic and brand new--to bear on these questions,
which turn out to be intimately related. In the end, I suggest that we are in a
particularly peculiar moment, one that is truly different than any other in
history and causes a special type of sui generis Epistemic Chaos
The Centre for Logic and Language hosts a regular seminar series - the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Forum (LEM). The forum generally meets fortnightly in term time.