[Hac-announce] August 2024 HAC Book Discussion: "The Constitution of Knowledge" by Jonathan Rauch

[kvngough at aol.com]

Our book for August is The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by journalist Jonathan Rauch. The discussion will take place on Saturday, August 24 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. Please note that we are meeting on the 4th rather than 3rd Saturday of the month. 
>From Amazon:Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.
In this path-breaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the ‘Constitution of Knowledge’, our social system for turning disagreement into truth.
By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do, and how they can do it.
"It’s a great book, truly important in the pantheon of defenses of free speech, free thought, and the commitment to truth, the perfect counter to post-truth claims on the left and populist truth claims on the right. Destined to be a classic, in the tradition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.” – Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine
Hope to see you on the 24th,
Kevin & Paula

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