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Intellectual Vice and Social Networks? Cailin O’Connor

By SERRC on February 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

In “Fake News, Conspiracy, and Intellectual Vice” Marco Meyer (2019) presents findings from an investigation of the role of intellectual vices—intellectual arrogance, intellectual vanity, boredom, and intellectual fragility—in the uptake of conspiracy theories and fake news. Using online survey tools,… Read More ›

Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational? Neil Levy

By SERRC on October 9, 2019 • ( 1 )

Conspiratorial ideation—as I will call the disposition to be accepting of unwarranted conspiracy theories—is widely regarded as a product of irrationality or epistemic vice. I argue that it is not: the dispositions that underlie it are not rationally criticisable. Some… Read More ›

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conspiracy theorists

Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational? Neil Levy