[ecrea] CfP: A Moment of Post-Truth - What are the implications for STS

*CfP: **A Moment of Post-Truth - What are the Implications for STS?*

Special issue of Engaging Science, Technology and Society

http://estsjournal.org/

Special Issue Editors: Johan Söderberg & Kean Birch

Invited discussant: Linsey McGoey

The surge of post-truth, alternative facts, and filter bubbles have 
turned the table on STS discussions about knowledge and truth. Interest 
in the production of knowledge has been flipped to an interest in the 
production of non-knowledge, i.e.ignorance. The case could be made that 
we always have lived in post-truth times. Still, recent political 
developments underline the gravity of the epistemological issues that 
previously were confined to academic seminar rooms. The need to be able 
to tell truthful statements apart from lies was not felt to be so urgent 
before the rise of populist and anti-rationalist movements and the 
election of their candidates into seats of office.  The haunting 
question that needs to be addressed is: how can (if at all) the need for 
making such distinctions be accomplished with core STS tenets: the 
social construction of scientific facts, the under-determination of 
empirical data, the symmetrical treatment of true and false statements, 
and the equalization of lay expertise with expert expertise? What 
theoretical developments are prompted by the currentpolitical landscape? 
What philosophical traditions and theoretical resources are available to 
STS scholars for steering a path between the Scylla of technocracyand 
the Charybdis of populism? Contributors  to the special issue of are 
invited to engage with these questionsfrom a variety of different 
standpoints. We are looking for papers where theoretically challenging 
positions are developed through empirically grounded case studies. 
Linsey McGoey will give her reflection on the individual papers in a 
concluding sectionof this special issue of 4S Open Access journal 
Engaging Science, Technology and Society.

Prospecting authors are requested to send a notification of interest + a 
preliminary title/abstractby15 October 2017. Please send it to the 
special editors: johan [dot] soderberg [at] sts [dot] gu [dot] se  and 
keanbirch [at] gmail [dot] com

Preliminary publication date is scheduled for winter 2018/spring 2019


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