Susan Dieleman (U. Lethbridge)
"Competence and Sincerity in a Post-Trust Society"
26 janvier 2024, 12h-13h (heure de Montréal, EST)
January 26, 2024, 12-1 pm (Montreal time, EST)
Thème: Philosophie féministe
Theme: Feminist philosophy
Abstract
Since 2016, when the Oxford English Dictionary identified “post-truth” as its word of the year, the apparent crisis of truth has been lamented by many who have unhelpfully defined a post-truth context as one in which appeals to emotion have more sway than appeals to facts. In this presentation, I contend that this crisis of truth is better understood as a crisis of trust. Or, more accurately still, that trust and truth are likely to stand and fall together. As a result, we who are interested in addressing contemporary political crises would do well to attend to the role(s) competence and sincerity – two features thought to comprise epistemic trust – play in our relationships with various others.
