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Strandberg, H. (2019). Life and Truth: A Response to Joel Backström. Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 8, 131–140. https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v8i0.3501
Jul 8, 2019 · Joel Backström, Ph.D., is researcher in philosophy at the University of Helsinki, where he also teaches philosophy. He is the author of The fear of openness: An essay on friendship and the roots of morality (ÅAUP, 2007) and co-editor of Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave, 2019).
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- 2019
Dec 1, 2008 · Book Review: Joel Backström, The Fear of Openness: An Essay on Friendship and the Roots of Morality (Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2007). iv + 524 pp. 33 (pb), ISBN 978—951—765—364—0 Guido de Graaff
- Guido de Graaff
- 2008
Pre-Truth Life in Post-Truth Times. Joel Backström. 2019, Nordic Wittgenstein Review. This article could be characterised as providing philosophical preliminaries for a diagnosis of the contemporary 'post-truth'-problematic.
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Joel BACKSTRÖM | Cited by 82 | of University of Helsinki, Helsinki (HY) | Read 20 publications | Contact Joel BACKSTRÖM.
Joel Backström. Docent Contract, Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies. Title of Docent, Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies. Philosophy, Swedish-Speaking Students. Email joel.backstrom @ helsinki. fi. 2007 2024.
Abstract. Clearing philosophical ground for diagnoses of the contemporary ‘post-truth’-problematic, this article discusses the systematic and ineliminable ambivalence of claims to truth in public discourse and collective life generally, where truth cannot ultimately be disentangled from untruth.
