Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter Int-7; Introduction Science and Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Pareto'S Hidden Hand; Chapter 1 Brexit: Political Expertise Confronts the will of the People; Introduction; The Anti-expert Turn in Politics and Science; How the Anti-experts Beat the Experts at Their Own Game in Brexit; How the Anti-experts Ended Up Scoring an Own Goal in the Brexit Game; Chapter 2 What Philosophy does and does not Teach us About the Post-Truth Condition
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A Post-Truth History of TruthThe Birth of Rhetoric as the Crucible of the Post-Truth Imaginary; The Modal Power of the Entertainment Industry; How Truth Looks to Post-Truth: Veritism as 'Fake Philosophy'; Consensus: Manufactured Consent as the Regulative Ideal of Science?; Chapter 3 Sociology and Science and Technology Studies as Post-Truth Sciences; Sociology and the Social Construction of Identity; Science and Technology Studies and Scientific Gamesmanship; Chapter 4 The Post-Truth About Academia: Undiscovered Public Knowledge
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'As If': The Politics and Science of the Fact-Fiction DistinctionThe Quantum Nature of Modal Power; Prolegomena to a Quantum Historiography of Modal Power; Chapter 7 Forecasting: The Future as the Post-Truth Playground; Introduction: The Alchemy of Deriving Truth from Error; Prediction: The Past's Relevance to the Future; Does Science Help or Harm Forecasting? The Fate of Punditry as Expertise; Learning to Think the Unthinkable: Post-Truth's Proving Ground; Superforecasting: The Fine Art of Always Preparing for Doomsday; Conclusion: From Superforecasting to Precipitatory Governance
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Introduction: Academia's Epistemic Shortfalls and Entitlement PretensionsThe Challenge of Academic Rentiership and Its Interdisciplinary Antidote; The Cult of Success and the Military-Industrial Will to Knowledge; The Corporation as the Hub of the Military-Industrial Will to Knowledge; Conclusion: The Cautionary Tale of Fritz Haber and Larger Lessons for Interdisciplinarity; Appendix: Prolegomena to a Deep History of 'Information Overload'; Chapter 5 Science Customization: A Project for the Post-Truth Condition; Protscience: Science Upfront and Personal
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The Public Intellectual as the Proto-ProtscientistThe Science Customer Who Need Not Be a Science Consumer; The Role of Customized Science in the Future of Democracy and the University; Interlude: Wikipedia -- A Democratic Cure Worse Than Its Elitist Disease?; Historical Precedents and Future Prospects for an Adequate Scientific Response to Customized Science; Chapter 6 The Performance of Politics and Science on the Playing Field of Time; The Weberian Dialectic: Where Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science Meet; Modal Power and the Fine Art of Actualizing the Possible
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'Post-truth', Oxford Dictionary's 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind 'post-truth' is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.