What’s Really Wrong With Fake News? A Spinozist Perspective
Delivered by Susan James Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, King’s College London.
Fake news is nothing new. For many generations, philosophers have discussed it and asked themselves what’s wrong with it. In this lecture I’ll consider whether their conclusions can deepen our own understanding of its dangers. Focusing on the work of one insightful opponent of fake news, the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, I’ll explore his view that it undermines our attachment to truthfulness. This is its most harmful effect, and it has radical political implications. What might they mean for us?
RSVP 29th August
For further information, including registration, see here:
https://hpi.uq.edu.au/event/8051/2025-atkins-public-lecture
