The international panellists who are at the forefront of current debate on rational discourse and the post-truth crisis, dissect the current state of public discourse around truth, evidence, and reason, and associated questions including trust, faith, and identity.

They discuss their answers to the question “who can we believe?” and show how truth is intertwined with complex questions ranging from knowledge to authority to reality.

SPEAKERS:

- Sarah Haider is an American writer, speaker, and activist. In 2013, she co-founded Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA)

- Tom Nichols is Professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College, and author of the recent book The Death of Expertise: The campaign against established knowledge and why it matters (2017)

- James A Lindsay is an American thinker, not a philosopher, with a doctorate in math and background in physics. He is the author of four books, most recently Life in Light of Death (2016)

- Dr Caroline West is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney

Held as part of the Sydney Ideas Post Truth Initiative series on 20 November 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/post_truth_initiative_series_2017.shtml