Volume 12, Issue 9, 1-31, September 2023 ❧ Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6. ❧ Gillett, Tertia. 2023. “Are We Wiser Together? A Review of Cizek and Uricchio’s Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›
Scott Hill
Is ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Harmful? A Reply to Foster and Ichikawa, Scott Hill
Some terms are harmful. Take slurs. The use of slurs can promote and sustain connections between concepts and stereotypes that harm innocent people. A slur for African Americans, for example, may be harmful even if that slur does not license… Read More ›
The Le Monde Declaration: Can Suppression of Conspiracy Theory be Conspiratorial? Lee Basham
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 ›
SERRC: Most Viewed Monthly Posts of 2022
The list below provides the articles, replies, and reviews most viewed on the month of their initial posting in 2022. And please review 2021’s list. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range of contributions that the… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 12, December 2022
Volume 11, Issue 12, 1-81, December 2022 Podcast Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 3: “Faith, Knowing, and Believing.” Guest: Sister Mary Magdalene; Hosts: Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Sassower, Raphael 2022. “Why Does Latour the… Read More ›
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 ›
Substantive Disagreement in the Le Monde Debate and Beyond: Replies to Duetz and Dentith, Basham, and Hewitt, Scott Hill
I agree with much of what J.C.M. Duetz and M R.X. Dentith have to say in “Reconciling Conceptual Confusions in the Le Monde Debate on Conspiracy Theories” (2022). They have given me a lot to think about and have caused… 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 ›
Hill on “Stereotypical” Conspiracy Theories and Cognitive Disabling, Lee Basham
We must not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. — George Bush I will not stand by and allow wild conspiracy theories. —Joseph Biden Scott Hill provides an interesting diversion of and, in that, dismissal of the Le Monde statement by certain… 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 ›