Dr. David Lanius
David Lanius is fellow at Weizenbaum Institute and Postdoc at DebateLab of Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). He studied philosophy and logic in Munich, Madrid and Amsterdam and did his PhD in Berlin and Los Angeles on Strategic Indeterminacy in the Law (forthcoming with OUP).
His current research focus is on reconstructing and analyzing populist arguments in current political debates, defining the concept and assessing the phenomenon of fake news, and developing a normative theory of public debate (in particular, on how norms or standards of debate can be justified). The focal question of his research is: How can the quality of public debate be improved?
Positions at Weizenbaum Institut
Research Fellow:
Research Group "News, Campaigns and the Rationality of Public Discourse"
April - June 2019
Fields of research
- Sprachphilosophie, Rechtsphilosophie, Logik, Argumentationstheorie, Rechtspopulismus, Fake News, Deliberative Demokratie
- Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law, Logic, Argumentation Theory, Right-wing Populism, Fake News, Deliberative Democracy
Projects
- A Normative Theory of Public Debate (http://debatelab.philosophie.kit.edu/26_128.php)
- Analyzing the Argumentative Practices of Populism (http://debatelab.philosophie.kit.edu/26_103.php)
- Defining Fake News and Assessing Its Ramifications to Public Debate
Publications
Selection
Romy Jaster/David Lanius: "Die Wahrheit schafft sich ab - Wie Fake News Politik machen", Reclam [Was bedeutet das alles?], 2019.
Romy Jaster/David Lanius: "What is Fake News?", Versus 127(2) - Special Issue "Fake News, misinformation/disinformation, post-truth", 2018: 207-224.
David Lanius: "Wie argumentieren Rechtspopulisten? Eine Argumentationsanalyse des AfD-Wahlprogramms", Diskussionspapiere / Institut für Technikzukünfte [https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000074060], 2017.