Lee McIntyre – Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent lecturer in ethics at the Harvard Extension School. He holds a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has taught philosophy at Colgate University (where he won the Fraternity and Sorority Prize for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy), Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard University. Extension School (where he received the Dean's Letter of Commendation for his distinguished teaching. ). Former executive director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, he also served as policy advisor to the executive dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as an associate editor in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank from Boston. .

McIntyre is the author of On Disinformation (MIT Press, 2023), How to Talk to a Science Denier (MIT Press, 2021), The Art of Good and Evil (Braveship Books, 2021), Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2019) , The Sin Eater (Braveship, 2019), The Scientific Attitude (MIT Press, 2019), Post-Truth (MIT Press, 2018), Respecting Truth (Routledge, 2015), Dark Ages (MIT Press, 2006), and Laws and Explanation . in Social Sciences (Westview Press, 1996). He is the co-editor of five anthologies: Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science (MIT Press, 1994), two volumes in the series Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline (Springer , 2006) and Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline (Springer 2014), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science (Routledge, 2017) and A Companion to Public Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022). McIntyre is also the author of Explaining Explanation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences (Rowman and Littlefield/UPA, 2012), which is a collection of twenty years of philosophical essays appearing in Synthese, Philosophy of the Social. Science, teaching philosophy, perspectives on science, biology and philosophy, criticism, theory and decision, and elsewhere.

McIntyre's popular essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Nature, Newsweek, Scientific American, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Deseret Magazine, New Statesman, The Times Higher Education Supplement , the Humanist and many other places. He has appeared on CNN International's Amanpour and Company – and several other programs on PBS, NPR and the BBC – and has spoken at the United Nations, NASA and the Vatican.
His work has been translated into seventeen languages.

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