What is the difference between fake news and fiction? While we tend to deplore fake news, we often enlist fiction in the forms of stories, films, and literature to provide entertainment as well as moral and aesthetic edification. And yet, we also associate fake news with powerful political narratives. Prof. Hannah Kim (Macalester College) discusses the way facts relate to both mediums and what we can do to mitigate the problems of disinformation.
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Martin Bunzl, author of Thinking while Walking
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase
Links Related to this Episode:
Hannah Kim (personal website)
Philosophy of Fiction
Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth)
Squid Games (becoming real)
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