Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 13-18. Our third and final drop for Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 is now live. The episodes feature the following: • Professor Lee Basham, the University of Texas-Pan American; • Professor Ljiljana Radenović, University… Read More ›
Lee Basham
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023
Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023 ❧ Hewitt, Des. 2023. “Requiem for Expertise.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (8): 1-9. ❧ Walker, Jesse. 2023. “Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
Creative Misreadings, Jesse Walker
Lee Basham’s article is wildly inaccurate.[1] I do not mean that he has marshaled poor arguments against my positions; I mean that the positions he is arguing against are not mine in the first place. He attributes opinions to me… Read More ›
Jesse Walker’s “Broad Church” of Conspiracy Theory: We’re all Paranoids, Lee Basham
Wish politicians looked out for miners instead of minors on some island somewhere. … They want to have total control, know what you think, know what you do. — Oliver Anthony Jesse Walker’s background premise is that we are paranoiacs…. 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 ›
Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham, Jesse Walker
Lee Basham asks how I define “conspiracy theory.”[1] I have a rather broad-church definition: I use the phrase to mean any theory that posits a conspiracy. I do not think a theory needs to be implausible, fringy, or false to… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 7, 1-47, July 2023
Volume 12, Issue 7, 1-47, July 2023 • Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16. • Part II: Xabier Renteria-Uriarte “The Value of Shooting at a Plane with a Rifle: A Reply to Dennis Masaka.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
Walker and the Fiction of Conspiracy Theory as “Fringe”, Lee Basham
Jesse Walker is a prolific and accomplished writer with the Reason Foundation, a group associated with a certain Nozick-like political-economic libertarianism and a general impatience with skepticism about our underlying political and economic systems in the West. It’s encouraging to… Read More ›
Conspiracy Theory as Public Intelligence: A Reply to Keeley, Lee Basham
While passing through Grants, New Mexico, you will see haunting bumper stickers. The town is for the most part the picture of poverty. But there is a powerful back-story, the near-by Ambrosia Lake Uranium mines. The old, local restaurants, now… Read More ›