Why academics should have a duty of truth telling in an epoch of post-truth? / Paul Gibbs

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Author	GIBBS, Paul
Title	Why academics should have a duty of truth telling in an epoch of post-truth? / Paul Gibbs
Publication year	2019
Source/Footnote	In: Higher education. - 78 (2019) 3, S. 501 - 510
Inventory number	48618
Keywords	Wissenschaft : Ethik in der Wissenschaft ; Hochschule und Gesellschaft
Abstract	In this article, I advocate that university education has at its core a mission to enable its communities of scholars (staff and students) to make judgements on what can be trusted, and that they, themselves, should be truth-tellers. It is about society being able to rely upon academic statements, avoiding deliberate falsehoods. This requires trust in oneself to make those judgements; an obligation to do so; and the courage to speak out when such judgements might be unpopular, risky or potentially unsafe. I suggest it should be a duty placed on academics to be truth-tellers and to educate potentially gullible others in what it is to have worthy and reliable self-trust in their own judgements. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)