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Sven Bernecker is Humboldt Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Besides Germany and the USA, he held tenured academic positions in Austria and the UK. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy in 1997 at Stanford University and the Habilitation in 2002 at the University of Munich.
Amy K. Flowerree is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) at the University of Cologne. She completed her PhD in philosophy at Northwestern University in 2017.
Thomas Grundmann is professor of philosophy at the University of Cologne since 2004. Before that he held academic positions in Tübingen and Saarbruecken. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy in 1991 and the Habilitation in 200, both at the University of Tuebingen.
Fake news is an important topic of current social concern. This book is the first sustained inquiry into the epistemology of fake news. The chapters examine the meaning of the term 'fake news', discuss practices that generate or promote fake news, and investigate potential therapies for the problems it presents.
