@article{ref1,
title="Fake news, conceptual engineering, and linguistic resistance: reply to Pepp, Michaelson and Sterken, and Brown",
journal="Inquiry : an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences",
year="2022",
author="Habgood-Coote, Joshua",
volume="65",
number="4",
pages="488-516",
abstract="In Habgood-Coote (2019. &quot;Stop Talking about Fake News!&quot;. Inquiry: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62(9-10): 1033-1065) I argued that we should abandon 'fake news' and 'post-truth', on the grounds that these terms do not have stable public meanings, are unnecessary, and function as vehicles for propaganda. Jessica Pepp, Eliot Michaelson, and Rachel Sterken (2019. &quot;Why We Should Keep Talking About Fake News&quot;. Inquiry: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy) and Étienne Brown (2019. &quot;Fake News and Conceptual Ethics&quot;. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 16(2): 144-154) have raised worries about my case for abandonment, recommending that we continue using 'fake news'. In this paper, I respond to these worries. I distinguish more clearly between theoretical and political reasons for abandoning a term, assemble more evidence that 'fake news' is a nonsense term, and respond to the worries raised by Pepp, Michaelson and Sterken, and Brown. I close by considering the prospects for anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian conceptual engineering.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-174X",
doi="10.1080/0020174X.2020.1758770",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1758770"
}