toxic truths - 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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]]> Joining the Conspiracy [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/joining-conspiracy-special-issue/ Tue, 22 May 2018 20:35:19 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=877 What if our institutions of public information do not always have the ability to expose malevolent conspiracies, worming their way through our society with vast consequences? What if, worse, even given this ability, these institutions often have compelling, society-regarding reasons not to publicly reveal these conspiracies? The epistemology of these two problems is distinct but […]

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