Remarkably, with a dash of amusement, the answer to the question posed in the title is “yes”. The irony of the Le Monde declaration lives on. Let’s turn our thoughts to plagiarism. Of course, we need to take plagiarism and… Read More ›
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Response to Hill: Conspiracy Theorizing, Ordinary Usage and Integrity, Lee Basham
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 ›
Reflections on Scott Hill’s ‘A Revised Defence of Le Monde Group’: ‘Never Again’, Des Hewitt
While I was reading Scott Hill’s (2022a) ‘A Revised Defense of the Le Monde Group’ a number of questions sprang to mind. Not least, what do conspiracy theorists and those academics that support, defend or simply present these in their… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 8, August 2022
Volume 11, Issue 8, 1-99, August 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Gibbons, Adam F. 2022. “On Epistocracy’s Epistemic Problem: Reply to Méndez.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (8): 1-7. ❧ Reynolds, Iaan. 2022. “Critique Without Normative Foundations:… Read More ›
The Role of Stereotypes in Theorizing about Conspiracy Theories: A Reply to Dentith, Scott Hill
I am very grateful to M R. X. Dentith (2022) for their helpful and valuable reply. I will begin by scaling back and dropping one of the claims that I made in my earlier paper. In the earlier paper, I… Read More ›
Avoiding the Stereotyping of the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories: A Reply to Hill, M R. X. Dentith
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 ›
A Revised Defense of the Le Monde Group, Scott Hill
On January 7th, 2015 two French brothers shot, injured, and killed staff in the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, in Paris, France. Over the next several days, connected attacks followed. The brothers pledged their allegiance to the Islamic… Read More ›