What is Truth?

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After a brief career working in Silicon Valley and helping to engineer what we now consume in social media, Tristan Harris of the Center for Human Technology, recently shared his grave concerns about what social media usage is doing to our perceptions of truth and our ability to maintain civil society. He says, our emotions are Paleolithic, our institutions are medieval, but our technology is accelerating at a godlike pace. We cannot change any of these quickly enough to stop the alienation, fake news, violence, and distorted ?truths? that we consume daily on social media. But we able to work to change our culture by raising awareness of social media manipulation and reclaiming our own rationality. This course is a deep dive into philosophical questions surrounding Truth, faith commitments that uphold truth, the technologies that put truth at risk, and our ability to protect ourselves and others in the ?Information Age.?