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Pages: 516
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
A Social History of Truth is a bold theoretical and historical exploration of the social conditions that make knowledge possible in any period and in any endeav
Language: en
Pages: 516
Pages: 516
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational stat
Language: en
Pages: 534
Pages: 534
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early mo
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06 - Publisher: JHU Press
For centuries, all manner of truth-seekers have used the lie detector. In this eye-opening book, Geoffrey C Bunn unpacks the history of this device and explores
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-21 - Publisher: Quercus Publishing
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions