Thursday, March 6th
7:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom A

Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and frequent guest on national talk shows such as The Colbert Report, alerted the audience to the epistemological anarchism of an open-source
knowledge system in which there is an absence of central intellectual authorities. This, he believes, creates a surreal relativism in which we have no way of determining hierarchies of knowledge. The end result is that, on Wikipedia, the entry for Stephen Colbert's concept of "truthiness" is as carefully footnoted and meticulously researched as the entry on "truth", the core concept in the history of western philosophy.

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Second McAndless Scholar 2007-2008 Lecture: Marshall Poe - An Introduction to Citizendium

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