Program: Truth and trust in a post-truth world

Truth used to be something we argued about. 

Now we can’t even agree on what it is. 

In a world of fake news and alternate facts, we each claim our personal truth, our own competing version of reality.

So, how does science, religion, and philosophy help us navigate truth when certainty is elusive?

What does it mean to live in a time when truth itself feels fractured? When the world is so complex – that we yearn for trust as much as truth?  

And how do we navigate moral or epistemic disagreement without falling into hostility or relativism?

GUESTS:

• DR CAROLYN FOSTER is an astro-physicist at the University of NSW.
• Prof ALAN DUFFY from Swinburne university of Technology in Melbourne, where he’s pro-vice chancellor too.
• DR VICTORIA LORRIMAR is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

This program was made on Warrang, Naarm, and Walyalup