Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News 0807036242, 9780807036242

A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a

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Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
0807036242, 9780807036242

This volume consists of a series of essays on the epistemology of fake news, written by leading philosophers. The episte

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In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable

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Since the 2016 US presidential election, debates about fake news have appeared regularly in entertainment, politics, and

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From fibs about royal incest in America’s first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack

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Beginning with the early works of Aristotle, the interpretation of the verb "to be" runs through Western lingu

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This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psych

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Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is sh

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This is the second edition, revised and supplemented. It is known that there are so-called "eternal problems"

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This brief history of the Czech Lands has been compiled by leading Czech historians. Its brevity and clarity result from

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In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces -- The Story of Civilization. Durant completed twenty-one of a prop

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