Political Epistemology

Harvard FAS

What is the relationship between politics and knowledge? Journalism, post-truth, echo chambers, misinformation, dogmatism, confirmation bias, mass ignorance, ideologies, persuasion, demagoguery, disagreement, polarization, epistemic injustice, skepticism, lying, intolerance, trust, testimony, the status of science in guiding public policy, and just plain error: these political phenomena all raise foundational epistemic issues about the nature, sources, and limits of political knowledge; and…