Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public...
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Author: Paul Thagard
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Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It by Thagard, Paul

Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

$377.50

Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

$377.50
Author: Paul Thagard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works--and breaks down.

Paul Thagard examines the dangers of misinformation on COVID-19, climate change, conspiracy theories, inequality, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He argues that effective responses to these problems require understanding how information is generated and spread. Bringing together empirical findings about the psychological and social mechanisms that drive cognitive errors with philosophical accounts of critical thinking, Thagard develops an innovative theory of how we gain information. Grasping how the generation and transmission of knowledge can fail helps us find ways to repair it and provides tools for converting misinformation into facts. Offering a deep and rich account of the nature and workings of information, Falsehoods Fly provides practical, concrete strategies to stop the creation and spread of misinformation.

Author: Paul Thagard
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231213943

About the Author
Paul Thagard is distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. His books include Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? (2021) and Balance: How It Works and What It Means (Columbia, 2022).

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