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When Is a Conspiracy Theory a Conspiracy? Jesse Walker
It has been nearly a decade since I wrote this passage, which Brian Keeley quotes in his discussion of the folk use of “conspiracy theory”:[1] People started using the phrase “conspiracy theory” to mean “implausible conspiracy theory,” then “implausible theory,… Read More ›
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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16. For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/. Season Two of Humanity 8.0 closes with an 8-episode drop of 4 interviews with four remarkable people: • Eileen Reavey, National Grassroots… Read More ›
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Echo Chambers and Social Media: On the Possibility of a Tax Incentive Solution, Megan Fritts
In “Regulating Social Media as a Public Good: Limiting Epistemic Segregation” (2023), Toby Handfield tackles a well-known problematic aspect of widespread social media use: the formation of ideologically monotone and insulated social networks. Handfield argues that we can take some… Read More ›
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Deleuze to the Rescue, Ahmed Bouzid
It was a welcome relief from the running endless procession of redundant “critical” takes on AI to encounter Professor David Gunkel’s essay, “Deconstruction to the Rescue”.[1] Finally, a perspective on Artificial Intelligence, Generative or otherwise, that does not smuggle through… Read More ›
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How Christianity Became Platonism for the Masses, Ljiljana Radenovic
In the preface to Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche famously said Christianity is Platonism for the people. This was not meant to be a compliment to Plato or Christianity. On the contrary, Nietzsche thought philosophy had gone downhill since Plato,… Read More ›
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The Value of Shooting at a Plane with a Rifle: A Reply to Dennis Masaka, Part II, Xabier Renteria-Uriarte
Planes and Aircraft Carriers: Laws, Language, Education or Mass Media Supporting ‘Our State is a Nation-State’ At the time of the French Revolution, only half the population of France spoke varieties of present-day French, and only 10% spoke what resembled… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 6, June 2023
Volume 12, Issue 6, 1-75, June 2023 ❧ Thalos, Mariam. 2023. “Public Sentiment and Its Powers.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (6): 1-20. ❧ Atkins, J. Spencer. 2023. “Defending Wokeness: A Response to Davidson.” Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
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The Value of Shooting at a Plane with a Rifle: A Reply to Dennis Masaka, Part I, Xabier Renteria-Uriarte
Abstract Does it make sense to shoot a rifle at a plane moving away in the sky? Moreover, does this action make sense when the plane is supported by the tanks, warships and aircraft carriers of a powerful regular army?… Read More ›
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Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy, Part II, Moti Mizrahi
3. Sentiment Analysis For those who are concerned about selection bias in the results of the 2009 and 2020 PhilPapers Surveys, there is another way to gauge the disagreement about progress in academic philosophy among academic philosophers, namely, to study… Read More ›
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Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy, Part I, Moti Mizrahi
Abstract Mizrahi (2017a) advances an argument in support of Weak Scientism, which is the view that scientific knowledge is the best (but not the only) knowledge we have, according to which Weak Scientism follows from the premises that scientific knowledge… Read More ›