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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Reputation, trust and keeping watch

Inga Thordar, executive editor of CNN Digital International, talks about industry best practice in fact-checking standards, and the idea of telling the truth now constituting activism.
Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Fake News and the Politics of Truth

Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust.
Textual Therapies

Why Public Health Needs Narrative

An introduction to an often overlooked context for using narrative in healthcare: public health.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Literature and Transitional Justice After the Rwandan Genocide: Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imama

This paper discusses the problems of literary memorialization and quest for truth in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as addressed by Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Victims’ Narratives in the Colombian Peace Process

This paper analyses how victims’ voices were heard during the peace negotiations and in the implementation of the 2016 peace accord between the FARC guerrilla and the Colombian government.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing

Liz Corbin, editor, BBC Reality Check, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Competing Memories: Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru

Rebekka Friedman (King’s College London) gives a talk for the OTJR Seminar Series.
Rewley House Research Seminars

Truth

The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making, from literary risks to clinical trials.
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

The inevitable implausibility of physical determinism

Richard G. Swinburne, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology seminar series.
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

The Truth about Art 1 - Mystery or Mastery

E.H. Gombrich famously observed that 'there really is no such thing as Art' (with a capital A).
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments

Lecture 1 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.
General Philosophy

5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief

Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge.
General Philosophy

5.3 Gettier and Other Complications

Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases.
General Philosophy

4.4 The Mind-Body Problem

Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea.
General Philosophy

4.3 Cartesian Dualism

Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea.
General Philosophy

3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument

Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction.
General Philosophy

3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction

Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience.

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