Michael Lynch
@plural_truth
Philosopher @UCONN; @UCHI_UCONN; founder @NEhumanities; #TED talker; know-it-all. Knowledge, truth, the ethics of technology and other simple ideas.
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#438 - Truth In Politics: A Dialogue with Michael P. Lynch, by Xavier Bonilla open.substack.com/pub/converging…
Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work by Peter Baker in this morning's paper.
Just published a short piece on Imperfect Cognition Imperfect Cognitions based on my new book The Rise of Polarization. Take a look 👇 imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ri…
Manuel Almagro Holgado's fabulous The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy has been longlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. EuJAP - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy is now accepting submissions for a book symposium on his work, check it out! shorturl.at/iK4S9
New review from Foreign Affairs On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It foreignaffairs.com/reviews/truth-… via Foreign Affairs
To study the decline of reading, The Economist analyzed nearly 250 years of presidential inaugural addresses using the Flesch-Kincaid test. Washington’s scored 28.7, a postgraduate level, while Trump's scored 9.4, the reading level of a high-schooler. economist.com/culture/2025/0…
Great new review of On Truth in Politics processnorth