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What can we realize and what should we believe about today's world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues can be applied the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a multitude of modern-day issues. Questions about what we can know - and might know about believe - are first addressed through an explicit awareness of the practicalities of working these issues out at the dawn of the 21st hundred years. Coady calls for an "applied flip" in epistemology, a process he likens to the applied flip that transformed the study of ethics in the early 1970s. Subjects handled include:

• Experts - how do we acknowledge them? So when should we trust them?
• Gossips - should they ever be believed? And will they, in truth, be a way to obtain knowledge?
• Conspiracy theories - when, if ever, should they be believed? And will they be regarded as true?
• The blogosphere - how does it equate to traditional advertising as a way to obtain knowledge and justified notion?

Timely, thought provoking, and questionable, What to Believe Now offers an abundance of insights into a branch of beliefs of growing importance - and increasing relevance - in the 21st hundred years.