In this paper I discuss how the need for defining truth in a political context retains its importance even light of insistence from realists that such attempts will necessarily fail.1 mention two debates philosophy intersect at issue. The first is dispute between those who, like Rawls, adhere to epistemic agnosticism and deny we can have an operational definition politics following Habermas, ar...

This article argues that although post-truth is understood to pose a particular misogynistic threat feminism, we cannot assume feminists should simply oppose post-truth. The way the debate constructed problematic for feminism in three ways: it misconceives relationship between democracy and truth; utilizes questionable binary reason emotion; propagates elitist assumptions about protecting from ...