The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

by James Owen Weatherall and Cailin O'Connor

Book Overview

The social dynamics of "alternative facts" why what you believe depends on who you know

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300251858
• ISBN13: 9780300251852
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"