Scott Hill’s most recent defense of the Le Monde declaration against conspiracy theory is welcome.[1] It’s an enjoyable and thoughtful piece with a high spirit to it. He also shares a disturbing revelation. Most important, it represents another opportunity to… Read More ›
Scott Hill has recently challenged philosophers like myself, Lee Basham, and the other signatories of our 2016, for both our criticisms of an article by some social scientists which appeared in Le Monde back in 2016, and for supposedly and… Read More ›
“It’s time to confront conspiracy theories? We’ve always been out of time for that.” — Otto Blaast In Social Epistemology we find an essay by philosopher Steve Clarke, “Is There a New Conspiracism?”[1] He argues Muirhead and Rosenblum’s A Lot of… Read More ›
As a scholar of both religion and conspiracy theories, it was perhaps inevitable that Nicholas Smith’s (2022) recent article would catch my attention. Happily, I agreed with his conclusions in the main, but I was moved to respond nonetheless, as… Read More ›
There is a growing body of literature, both popular and academic—including Alfano and Klein and Meyer’s contributions to this special issue—that holds that the world (or at least the Western World) is facing a new and growing problem that goes… Read More ›
In late 2017, I approached the publishers Rowman and Littlefield with a proposal for a book on the latest work on conspiracy theory theory (the study of conspiracy theory), which would take as its basis a series of replies and… Read More ›
Author Information: Alan Sokal, New York University, sokal@nyu.edu. Sokal, Alan. “A Dialogue on a Paradigm Case of Bad Science: Comment on Brian Martin.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 36-47. The pdf of the article gives… Read More ›
Author Information: Matthew R. X. Dentith, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, m.dentith@episto.org. Dentith, Matthew R. X. “Politics, Deception, and Being Self-Deceived.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 4 (2019): 38-43. The pdf of the… Read More ›
Author Information: Pascal Wagner-Egger, University of Fribourg, pascal.wagner@unifr.ch. Gérald Bronner, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain Sylvain Delouvée, University of Rennes Sebastien Dieguez, University of Fribourg Nicolas Gauvrit, École Pratique des Hautes Études Wagner-Egger, Pascal; Gérald Bronner, Sylvain Delouvée, Sebastian… Read More ›
Author Information: Pascal Wagner-Egger, University of Fribourg, pascal.wagner@unifr.ch. Gérald Bronner, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain Sylvain Delouvée, University of Rennes Sebastien Dieguez, University of Fribourg Nicolas Gauvrit, École Pratique des Hautes Études Wagner-Egger, Pascal; Gérald Bronner, Sylvain Delouvée, Sebastian… Read More ›