Week 5

2-9-2009

Truth, Opinions, Values

Fish, S., 2003. Truth but no consequences: Why philosophy doesn’t matter, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 29, pp. 389-417.

Kurtz, H., 1998. Introduction and The Gaggle. Introduction and Chapter 1 in Spin Cycle: How the Whit House and the Media Manipulate the News, Simon & Schuster, New York, pp. ix-xii and 1-32.

Lakoff, G., 2004. How to take back public discourse. Chapter 1 in Don’t Think of an Elephant:Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT pp. 3-34.

Rochefort, D. A. and R. W. Cobb, 1994. Problem definition: An emerging perspective, Chapter in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda, University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, pp. 1-31.