The Truth: Required Looking to Journalism

Authors

  • Gilles Gauthier Université Laval, Québec, Canadá
  • Andriolli de Brites da Costa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2015v12n2p204

Abstract

This article proposes an epistemological and ontological reflection on Journalism and it’s connections to the philosophic concepts of Truth and Reality – which, nowadays, are regarded with constraint as some kind of taboo in the communication field. For this purpose, the reflection is based on John Searle’s philosophical though on the realism - both metaphysical (on reality) and alethic (on truth) – in order to propose a Journalistic Realism. In this article, we intend to expose how the acknowledge of Journalism’s constructivist nature shouldn’t lead to the rejection of the idea of a brute reality or of the search for the truth. We estipulate that the journalistic construction is made of an aprioristic reality and that, as it seeks to report reality, it should seek truth also.

Author Biographies

Gilles Gauthier, Université Laval, Québec, Canadá

Doutor em Filosofia pela Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Professor titular do Departamento de informação e comunicação Louis-Jacques-Casault da Université Laval.

Andriolli de Brites da Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutorando em Comunicação e Informação pela UFRGS. Mestre em Jornalismo pela UFSC

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Published

2015-09-01

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2015): Verdades, Narrativas e Sentidos

Section

Núcleo Temático

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