PHIL S23-02-Z Truth: Yours or Mine?

PHIL S23-02-Z Truth: Yours or Mine?

Courses | This course is completed

4/19/2023-4/26/2023

10:00 AM-12:00 PM MDT on Wed

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$40.00

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From about age 3, kids realize that no one can read their minds, so kids sometimes choose to lie. As adults, we are bombarded with information conveying various shades of truth and untruth. We believe that truth matters--is morally right, is the golden guide for scientists, and is evidence for rational decision making. Yet beliefs and feelings seem to dominate truth, certainly in politics? Why is to so hard to discern truth from falsehood? Has postmodernism wrecked the notion of objective truth, so that my truth may be radically different from your truth?

Duncan, George

George Duncan, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the Board of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and the Center for Contemporary Art, as well as on RENESAN’s Curriculum Committee. At RENESAN, he has taught about how we are affected by torrents of information—some of it truthful and some of it not.