The Value of Truth

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Katya: Why are we so confident that the answers to some of these philosophical questions are going to end up with happiness or with things that are really valuable to us rather than things that are like terrifying? And I feel like I have spent a fair bit of my life as a graduate student and now as a philosophy professor wrestling with that question. Megan: Have you sensed any sort of shift in the way in which truth is viewed more broadly in culture, maybe even if you can see any parallels from the discussions that that happened in ancient philosophy if there are such things.

In today's world of misinformation and misrepresentation, it's wise to be skeptical. But has our skepticism gone too far? What does it look like to not only refute what is false — but also to follow what is true?

In this episode, hear from two philosophy professors, Dr. Meghan Sullivan of Notre Dame and Dr. Katja Vogt of Columbia University. Their conversation from April 2022 draws from philosophers like Aristotle and Plato, and they discuss how truth can be appreciated and acted upon, what it means to pursue truth together, and how rediscovering the value of truth just might make our lives and society better.

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