Mistrust - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy https://www.argumenta.org Journal of Analytic Philosophy Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:34:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Toxic Conspiracy Theories as Epistemically Illuminating Falsehoods https://www.argumenta.org/article/toxic-conspiracy-theories-as-epistemically-illuminating-falsehoods/ Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:40:06 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2575 Scholars have charged conspiracy theories with many epistemic flaws: they are rarely warranted (Popper 1969), unnecessarily complex (Mandik 2007), overly intentional (Clarke 2002), and insulated from evidence (Sunstein &Vermeule 2009; Napolitano 2021). Theorists themselves are seen as gullible (Cassam 2016), paranoid (Hofstadter 1965; Lipton 2004), biased and prone to faulty reasoning (Harris 2018), and historically […]

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