Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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A revolution began over 2,000 years ago that sought to wrestle ownership of facts away from individuals and into the public domain. This revolutionary idea reached its pinnacle in the 16th century when, as Alasdair Macintyre puts it, we invented ‘facts’. Today, individuals have once again become personal 'fact-ories'. We will explore the philosophical and historical reasons for this.