The Truth about Post-Truth - a podcast by The Vim Podcast

“Post-truth” was the 2016 word of the year, inspired by Trump and Brexit. But what does it mean? Is it coherent? Can we ever actually be post-truth? If so, are we now?

Dylan and Zach subject the concept to some analysis. They base their discussion on an interview in Vox of a philosopher called Simon Blackburn.

0:00- Housekeeping
3:40- Introducing post-truth
5:30- Prolegomenon to Analytic Structuralist Aphorisms
7:15- What is truth?
9:04- The correspondence theory of truth
16:19- The coherence theory of truth
17:07- The Pragmatist theory of truth
20:35- Post-modernism
27:11- What is post-truth? Blackburn’s take- and our critiques of him
33:21- Oxford Dictionary’s (better) definition of post-truth
36:38- Post-truth vs. lying
41:49- Paradoxes in post-truth and fascism- the incoherence is the point
46:56- So the post-modernists were right all along?
49:29- Who is to blame for this mess?
53:55- Flat-earth theory hot takes
59:20- Are the post-modernists to blame?
1:00:27- Can we be held responsible for misinterpretations of our writing? (Ex. Nietzsche)
1:04:01- How can we get out of this?
1:08:03- A posteriori Supererogatory Deductions

Read the Vox article: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/14/17661430/trump-post-truth-politics-philosophy-simon-blackburn

Read Zach’s article on incoherence and fascism: https://thevimblog.com/2018/08/07/hypocrisy-to-fascism/

We recommend Lee McIntyre’s book called _Post Truth_

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