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 ›
conspiracy theory
The “New Conspiracism” is Not: Muirhead and Rosenblum’s A Lot of People are Saying, Lee Basham
“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 ›
We Need to Talk About Religion: A Response to Smith’s “A Quasi-Fideist Approach to QAnon,” David G. Robertson
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 ›
The Trouble With ‘Fake News’, David Coady
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 ›
The Iniquity of the Conspiracy Inquirers, M R. X. Dentith
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 ›
A Dialogue on a Paradigm Case of Bad Science, Alan Sokal
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 ›
Politics, Deception, and Being Self-Deceived, Matthew R. X. Dentith
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 ›
Why ‘Healthy Conspiracy Theories’ Are (Oxy)morons, Part Two, Pascal Wagner et al
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 ›
Why ‘Healthy Conspiracy Theories’ Are (Oxy)morons, Part One, Pascal Wagner et al
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 ›
Ethics, Cogenetic Logic, and the Foundation of Meaning, Luca Tateo
Author Information: Luca Tateo, Aalborg University & Federal University of Bahia, luca@hum.aau.dk. Tateo, Luca. “Ethics, Cogenetic Logic, and the Foundation of Meaning.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 1-8. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-44i… Read More ›