Knowledge Resistance | Åsa Wikforss

Knowledge Resistance | Åsa Wikforss

Author: IAI May 19, 2020 Duration: 11:59

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With the rise of 'fake news' and the publicising of blatant lies, how important is it to reassert the importance of accuracy and truth?

Åsa Wikforss is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. Wikforss is a member of Swedish Academy whose research focuses on the intersection of philosophy of mind, language and epistemology, ans in 2017 Wikfoss published Alternative facts. On knowledge and its enemies, a book that has had a great impact in Sweden.

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