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Fake news, misinformation, and disinformation: journalism today?

13. November 2021 Philosophy News News
[Reading list] Fake, false, inaccurate, misleading, and deceptive. This rhetoric is all too familiar to the news consuming public today. But what is fake news and how does it differ from misinformation and disinformation?       Related StoriesWhy depth interviewing is essential to understanding individuals and institutionsFive key areas of communication for research integrityPolice-free schools: the new frontier in ending the school-to-prison [More]
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How can we solve the energy crisis and mitigate climate change?

11. October 2021 Philosophy News News
Symptoms of the looming climate crisis abound: 50-year extreme heat events happening every year, melting of polar ice sheets, forest fires that encircle the globe, tropical cyclones of greater size, intensity and, as was very evident in Ida’s recent visit to New York, unprecedented levels of precipitation.       Related StoriesThe activism of Fannie Lou Hamer: a timelineTake a virtual tour of America’s national parks: the Grand StaircaseStereotypes of atheist scientists need to be dispelled before trust in science [More]
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The power of words [podcast]

31. August 2021 Philosophy News News
We’re all familiar with the phrase “words have power” but in a political and cultural climate where we become more aware of the power that money, influence, and privilege have every day, how do people wield the power of words?       Related StoriesSHAPE and societal recovery from crisesThe neuroscience of human consciousness [podcast]How does ocean health impact life and livelihoods? [More]
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SHAPE and societal recovery from crises

16. August 2021 Philosophy News News
The SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts for People and the Economy) initiative advocates for the value of the social sciences, humanities, and arts subject areas in helping us to understand the world in which we live and find solutions to global issues. As societies around the world respond to the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, research from SHAPE disciplines has the potential to illuminate how societies process and recover from various social crises.       Related StoriesOn SHAPE: a Q&A with Lucy Noakes, Eyal Poleg, Laura Wright & Mary KellyFrom the rise to the maturation of the platform economy“Stop acting like a child”: police denial of Black [More]
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Have humans always lived in a “pluriverse” of worlds?

16. July 2021 Philosophy News News
In the modern West, we take it for granted that reality is an objectively knowable material world. From a young age, we are taught to visualize it as a vast abstract space full of free-standing objects that all obey timeless universal laws of science and nature. But a very different picture of reality is now emerging from new currents of thought in fields like history, anthropology, and sociology.        Related StoriesA Roman road trip: tips for travelling the Roman Empire this summerThe VSI podcast season two: Homer, film music, consciousness, samurai, and moreShakespeare and the sciences of [More]
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Shakespeare and the sciences of emotion

9. July 2021 Philosophy News News
What role should literature have in the interdisciplinary study of emotion? The dominant answer today seems to be “not much.” Scholars of literature of course write about emotion; but fundamental questions about what emotion is and how it works belong elsewhere: to psychology, cognitive science, neurophysiology, philosophy of mind. In Shakespeare’s time the picture was different. What the period called “passions” were material for ethics and for that part of natural philosophy dealing with the soul; but it was rhetoric that offered the most extensive accounts of the passions.       Related StoriesAdapting Shakespeare: shattering stereotypes of Asian women onstage and onscreenWhy did evolution create conscious states of mind?Where have you gone, Jimmy Gatz? Roman Catholic haunting in American literary [More]
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