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66Is Conspiracy Theory a Case of Conceptual Domination?Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (11): 74-82. 2023.
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245Prejudice, generics, and resistance to evidenceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2023.In his book, "Prejudice", Endre Begby offers a novel and engaging account of the epistemology of prejudice which challenges some of the standard assumptions that have so far guided the recent discussion on the topic. One of Begby's central arguments against the standard view of prejudice, according to which a prejudiced person necessarily displays an epistemically culpable resistance to counterevidence, is that, qua stereotype judgments, prejudices can be flexible and rationally maintained upon …Read more
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67Why We Should Stop Talking about Generalism and Particularism: Moving the Debate on Conspiracy Theories ForwardSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (9): 22-26. 2023.
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480Echo ChambersIn Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd edition, Wiley Blackwell. forthcoming.
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497What is a Conspiracy Theory?Erkenntnis 88 (5): 2035-2062. 2021.In much of the current academic and public discussion, conspiracy theories are portrayed as a negative phenomenon, linked to misinformation, mistrust in experts and institutions, and political propaganda. Rather surprisingly, however, philosophers working on this topic have been reluctant to incorporate a negatively evaluative aspect when either analyzing or engineering the concept conspiracy theory. In this paper, we present empirical data on the nature of the concept conspiracy theory from fiv…Read more
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1946Conspiracy Theories and Evidential Self-InsulationIn Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News, Oxford University Press. pp. 82-105. 2021.What are conspiracy theories? And what, if anything, is epistemically wrong with them? I offer an account on which conspiracy theories are a unique way of holding a belief in a conspiracy. Specifically, I take conspiracy theories to be self-insulating beliefs in conspiracies. On this view, conspiracy theorists have their conspiratorial beliefs in a way that is immune to revision by counter-evidence. I argue that conspiracy theories are always irrational. Although conspiracy theories involve an e…Read more
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