The Ballistics of Inquiry in a Post-Truth Age
Journal: Philosophy of education
Year: 2024

In the wake of Oxford Dictionary declaring "post-truth" as its 2016 word of the year, an April 2017 issue of Time Magazine featured no image at all, but rather asked, "Is Truth Dead?" 1 Many might shudder at the specter that we have entered a new, so-called "Post-Truth" age, in which truth has been toppled from its perch as the sunnum bonum of thought and inquiry.Would not a post-truth world only give aid to those anti-intellectual troglodytes who wish to dismiss the value of science and other r