The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology - Paperbackby Michael Hannon (Editor), Jeroen de Ridder (Editor) As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of "post truth", "fake news", "epistemic bubbles", and "truth decay", it was no surprise that in 2017 The New Scientist declared: "Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come." Political epistemology has old roots, but is now one of the most rapidly growing and important areas of philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology