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• Jesse Walker’s “Broad Church” of Conspiracy Theory: We’re all Paranoids, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on August 25, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Wish politicians looked out for miners instead of minors on some island somewhere. … They want to have total control, know what you think, know what you do. — Oliver Anthony Jesse Walker’s background premise is that we are paranoiacs…. Read More ›

• Is Academic Research Sufficiently Communist? A Comment on Bright and Heesen, Daniel J. Dunleavy

  By SERRC on August 22, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen (2023) seek to identify a more pragmatic and fruitful criterion for demarcating academic from commercial research. Having described the limitations of criteria based on epistemic success they propose adopting the Mertonian social norm of… Read More ›

• The Political Sins of Cybernetics: A Review of Evgeny Morozov’s The Santiago Boys, Felipe Figueroa

  By SERRC on August 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  My interest in Evgeny Morozov’s new podcast on Project Cybersyn is long-lasting. I come from Chile and have been interested in Project Cybersyn ever since reading Eden Medina’s wonderful book Cybernetic Revolutionaries (2011). Hence, I have been eagerly waiting for… Read More ›

• Conspiracy Theory and the “Bodyguard of Lies”: The Bennewitz Matter, Mark D. West

  By SERRC on August 10, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  Joseph Uscinski and Adam Enders (2022) describe “conspiracy theory” as a pejorative term, one employed in what they see as our “post-truth” era to indict official explanations for historical events. Conspiracy theories involve answers for why things happened that conflict… Read More ›

• William Whewell: Dramaturge of Science, Steve Fuller

  By SERRC on August 8, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  What follows is the English original of my Chinese introduction to the main account of the life, work and times of William Whewell: Richard Yeo, Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain (Cambridge University… Read More ›

• Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham, Jesse Walker

  By SERRC on August 4, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Lee Basham asks how I define “conspiracy theory.”[1] I have a rather broad-church definition: I use the phrase to mean any theory that posits a conspiracy. I do not think a theory needs to be implausible, fringy, or false to… Read More ›

• Requiem for Expertise, Des Hewitt

  By SERRC on August 2, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  It is perhaps an understatement to say that expertise has undergone something of an assault in recent years. Under the post-truth condition, experts and their knowledge have been under attack from politicians, commentators, and ironically those who oppose politicians and… Read More ›

• SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 7, 1-47, July 2023

  By SERRC on July 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Volume 12, Issue 7, 1-47, July 2023 • Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16. • Part II: Xabier Renteria-Uriarte “The Value of Shooting at a Plane with a Rifle: A Reply to Dennis Masaka.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›

• Walker and the Fiction of Conspiracy Theory as “Fringe”, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on July 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Jesse Walker is a prolific and accomplished writer with the Reason Foundation, a group associated with a certain Nozick-like political-economic libertarianism and a general impatience with skepticism about our underlying political and economic systems in the West. It’s encouraging to… Read More ›

• Conspiracy Theory as Public Intelligence: A Reply to Keeley, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on July 25, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  While passing through Grants, New Mexico, you will see haunting bumper stickers. The town is for the most part the picture of poverty. But there is a powerful back-story, the near-by Ambrosia Lake Uranium mines. The old, local restaurants, now… Read More ›

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