It’s Our Epistemic Environment, Not Our Attitude Toward Truth, That Matters

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2022.2149108

N. Levy

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The widespread conviction that we are living in a post-truth era rests on two claims: that a large number of people believe things that are clearly false, and that their believing these things reflects a lack of respect for truth. In reality, however, fewer people believe clearly false things than surveys or social media suggest. In particular, relatively few people believe things that are widely held to be bizarre. Moreover, accepting false beliefs does not reflect a lack of respect for truth. Almost everyone’s beliefs are explained by rationally warranted trust in some sources rather than others. This allows us to explain why people have false beliefs.

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重要的是我们的认知环境，而不是我们对真理的态度

摘要人们普遍认为，我们生活在一个后真相时代，这取决于两种说法：大量人相信明显虚假的东西，而他们相信这些东西反映了对真相的缺乏尊重。然而，事实上，相信明显虚假的事情的人比调查或社交媒体显示的要少。尤其是，相对而言，很少有人相信那些被广泛认为是怪异的事情。此外，接受错误的信仰并不意味着对真理缺乏尊重。几乎每个人的信仰都是通过对某些来源而非其他来源的合理信任来解释的。这使我们能够解释为什么人们有错误的信仰。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.