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Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age: Truth in Political Struggle 2021 ed. [Hardback]

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  • ISBN-13: 9783030733384
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 336 pages, height x width: 210x148 mm, weight: 585 g, XIII, 336 p., 1 Hardback
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2021
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  • ISBN-10: 3030733386
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This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups.

1 Truth in Political Struggle
1(6)
References
5(2)
2 Politically Contested Terminology
7(18)
2.1 Hijacking the Word "Racism"
7(6)
2.2 Linguistic Hijacking and Gender Terminology
13(6)
2.3 Misinformation and Truth in a Language
19(6)
References
23(2)
3 On the Possibility of Semantic Corruption
25(16)
3.1 One Word, Two Meanings?
25(3)
3.2 Semantic Corruption and Metasemantic Struggle
28(9)
3.2.1 The Role of Deference and Authority
30(2)
3.2.2 Different Possible Meanings of "Racist"
32(2)
3.2.3 From Different Possible Meanings to Different Actual Meanings
34(1)
3.2.4 The Semantic Corruption Model
35(2)
3.3 Looking Ahead
37(4)
References
38(3)
4 Toward a Conception of Misinformation as Epistemic Violence
41(26)
4.1 The Semantic Data Objection
42(3)
4.1.1 Metalinguistic Negotiation?
44(1)
4.2 The Actual Practice Objection
45(3)
4.3 The Role of Truth Objection
48(5)
4.3.1 Turning from Truth to Ontology?
51(2)
4.4 The Democracy as a Space of Reasons Objection
53(4)
4.5 The Epistemic Violence Model
57(10)
References
65(2)
5 Model-Theoretic Semantics for Politically Contested Terminology
67(36)
5.1 Overview
67(2)
5.2 A Brief History of Model Theory
69(25)
5.2.1 Frege: Mathematicising Semantics
69(11)
5.2.2 Tarski: Creating Model Theory
80(10)
5.2.3 Montague: Treating English as a Formal Language
90(4)
5.3 Situated Evidence for Semantic Theories of English
94(9)
References
99(4)
6 Toward an Intersectional Metasemantics
103(30)
6.1 What Is a Metasemantic Theory?
104(3)
6.2 Questioning Naturalistic Reductionism in Metasemantics
107(3)
6.3 A Brief History of Metasemantics
110(14)
6.3.1 Linguistic Meaning from Mental Contents
110(5)
6.3.2 Internalism Versus Externalism About Mental Contents
115(5)
6.3.3 Famous Arguments for Externalism
120(4)
6.4 Externalist Metasemantics Without Reductive Naturalism
124(3)
6.5 Ideal Language Metasemantics
127(6)
References
131(2)
7 Power and Regimes of Truth
133(50)
7.1 Situated Skepticism About the Concept of Power
133(4)
7.2 Foucault on Power
137(12)
7.3 Two Objections to a Foucauldian Theory of Power
149(6)
7.3.1 The Naturalistic Objection
149(4)
7.3.2 The Overly-Reductive Objection
153(2)
7.4 Regimes of Truth
155(23)
7.4.1 The Battle for Truth
155(5)
7.4.2 What Is a Discourse?
160(2)
7.4.3 What Is a Regime of Truth?
162(6)
7.4.4 Political Struggles for Truth and Justice
168(2)
7.4.5 Syntacticism About the Regime of Truth
170(3)
7.4.6 Truth, Science, and Democracy
173(5)
7.5 Epistemic Violence and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age
178(5)
References
181(2)
8 An Analytic Philosopher's Unified Theory of Intersectionality
183(52)
8.1 A Methodological Worry
184(4)
8.2 A Brief History of Intersectionality
188(6)
8.3 Intersectionality as Structural Oppression
194(18)
8.3.1 Single-Axis Frameworks
196(6)
8.3.2 What Is a Matrix of Domination?
202(10)
8.4 Political Intersectionality
212(4)
8.5 Interactional Social Identities
216(8)
8.5.1 Anti-essentialism About Social Identities
220(4)
8.6 Intersectionality as Critical TJjeory
224(4)
8.7 Intersectionality as Political Praxis
228(2)
8.8 Toward an Inter sectional Theory of Truth
230(5)
References
231(4)
9 Intersectional Metasemantic Adequacy
235(24)
9.1 Taking Stock
235(2)
9.2 General Metasemantic Adequacy
237(5)
9.3 Objections to GMA
242(10)
9.3.1 Objection 1: The Argument for GMA Confuses Sentences with Propositions
243(5)
9.3.2 Objection 2: The Revisionists Objection
248(4)
9.4 Intersectional Metasemantic Adequacy
252(2)
9.5 Objections to IMA
254(3)
9.6 Satisfying IMA
257(2)
References
257(2)
10 A Metasemantics for Intersectionality
259(40)
10.1 The Plan
259(1)
10.2 Constructing an Inter sectional Metasemantics
260(28)
10.2.1 Preliminaries
261(1)
10.2.2 Externalism
262(2)
10.2.3 Deference-Based Metasemantics
264(3)
10.2.4 Deferring to Ideal Linguistic Communities
267(5)
10.2.5 Languages as Historically Rooted
272(5)
10.2.6 Semantics Guided by Communal Goals
277(3)
10.2.7 Ambiguity and Multiple Definitions
280(1)
10.2.8 Meaning Change
281(3)
10.2.9 Intersectional Reference Magnetism
284(2)
10.2.10 Intersectional Metasemantics in Action
286(2)
10.3 Objections
288(6)
10.4 Truth, Democracy, and Epistemic Violence
294(5)
References
296(3)
11 Situated Knowledge and the Regime of Truth
299(30)
11.1 Overview
299(2)
11.2 Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity in Intersectional Epistemology
301(5)
11.3 Situated Knowledge, Situated Ignorance, and Epistemic Oppression
306(20)
11.3.1 Situated Linguistic Understanding
307(5)
11.3.2 Situated Evidence and Situated Information
312(6)
11.3.3 Situated Testimony
318(1)
11.3.4 Ideology
319(3)
11.3.5 Science and Situated Experience
322(4)
11.4 Truth in Political Struggle
326(3)
References
327(2)
Index 329
Derek Egan Anderson is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Boston University, USA.