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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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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.
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.
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Abstract. This chapter argues that traditional philosophy of mind turns on misrepresenting the I-you-relationship as a subject-object-relationship. This leads to interminable paradox and makes accounting for interpersonal understanding, the heart of human intelligibility, impossible.
Joel Backström. 2019, Nordic Wittgenstein Review. This article could be characterised as providing philosophical preliminaries for a diagnosis of the contemporary 'post-truth'-problematic.