Volume 13, Issue 1, 1-80, January 2024 ❧ West, Mark D. 2024. “Review: Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (1): 1–10. ❧ Kravchenko, Alexander V. 2024. “How Not to Make Things with… Read More ›
David Coady
The Legitimacy, Epistemic Consequences, and Functions of Dismissive Conversational Exercitives: A Response to Coady, Rico Hauswald
I am very grateful to David Coady (2023) for his inspiring comments on my article “‘That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory!’: Relevant Alternatives, Dismissive Conversational Exercitives, and the Problem of Premature Conclusions” (2023). While I think we agree on most aspects,… Read More ›
Review: Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition, Mark D. West
We, as epistemic agents, spend a great deal of time making necessary assessments of the credibility of various speech actors who come within our awareness. As citizens of the polis, bearing goodwill to the other citizens, we seek to ensure… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 10, 1-75, October 2023
Volume 12, Issue 10, 1-75, October 2023 ❧ Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 7-12. Conversations with: Professor David McNeill, Georgetown Law Center; Karina Montoya, The Open Markets Institute; Professor David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University. ❧ Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season… Read More ›
A Reply to Hauswald’s “‘That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory’”, David Coady
I agree with much that Rico Hauswald (2023) says in “‘That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory’: Relevant Alternatives, Dismissive Conversational Exercitives, and the Problem of Premature Conclusions.” I agree with him that the term “conspiracy theory” standardly acts in ordinary language… Read More ›
Should We be Generalists about Official Stories? A Response to Hayward, Will Mittendorf
In “The Applied Epistemology of Official Stories” (2023), Tim Hayward offers a thorough and convincing rejection of Neil Levy’s claim that we ought to defer to official stories from relevant epistemic authorities. In this response, I take no issue with… Read More ›
Conspiracy Theory and the “Bodyguard of Lies”: The Bennewitz Matter, Mark D. West
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 ›
Reconciling Conceptual Confusions in the Le Monde Debate on Conspiracy Theories, J.C.M. Duetz and M R. X. Dentith
As philosophers in the business of a very multifaceted research domain—i.e., Conspiracy Theory Theory—we believe that the interdisciplinarity of our research is not just important, but can promote and advance the fruitfulness of integrative (and thereby more resourceful) research endeavors… Read More ›
An Autopsy of the Origins of HIV/AIDS, Lee Basham
Abstract This note introduces to a wider audience the hypothesis that global HIV infection is, on an inference to the best explanation model, a result of mistakes made in the production of the Hilary Koprowski (CHAT) Oral Polio Vaccine that… Read More ›
Reply to Neil Levy’s “Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?” David Coady
Neil Levy says that he rejects something he calls my “solution to the problem” (2019 fn 3). This is doubly wrong, since I not only don’t advocate the so-called solution he ascribes to me, I also don’t think the so-called… Read More ›