Pub Date : 2024-07-15DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375781
Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier
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Pub Date : 2024-07-13DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2377414
Pirooz Fatoorchi
{"title":"Doubts about an argument from doubt","authors":"Pirooz Fatoorchi","doi":"10.1080/0020174x.2024.2377414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2024.2377414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501542,"journal":{"name":"Inquiry","volume":"51 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141651870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-13DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375771
Brian L. Keeley
In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times (08/06/2022), entitled Alex Jones is no kind of ‘theorist’, LZ Granderson writes that although the ubiquitous recent ‘conspiracy theorist’ of American j...
{"title":"Conspiracy theorists are not the problem; Conspiracy liars are","authors":"Brian L. Keeley","doi":"10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375771","url":null,"abstract":"In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times (08/06/2022), entitled Alex Jones is no kind of ‘theorist’, LZ Granderson writes that although the ubiquitous recent ‘conspiracy theorist’ of American j...","PeriodicalId":501542,"journal":{"name":"Inquiry","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375770
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
{"title":"How conspiratorial beliefs spread, and how real conspiracies are covered up","authors":"Catarina Dutilh Novaes","doi":"10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501542,"journal":{"name":"Inquiry","volume":"62 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141652649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375777
Benoit Gaultier
In this paper I raise a paradox of belief inspired by Kripke’s ‘paradox of knowledge', which states that knowledge seems to make permissible an intuitively unacceptable form of dogmatism. This para...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2370005
Leonardo Flamini
Many philosophers have recently challenged the monistic idea that knowledge is the sole aim of our inquiries into questions. Specifically, by giving examples, they argue that we can factually and l...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2362363
Kay Malte Bischof
I defend Spinoza's claim that extension is an attribute that an indivisible substance, such as God, could have. However, in order to explain why, we must abandon two long held orthodoxies in Spinoz...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2374450
Simon Kittle
It is widely believed that an agent can be morally responsible for something only if they were able to do otherwise. But what kind of ability to do otherwise is needed? Despite the obvious disagree...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2024.2375778
K. Harris
Philosophers who study conspiracy theories have increasingly addressed the questions of where conspiracy theories come from, what such theories do, and what to do about them. This essay serves as a commentary on the answers to these questions offered by contributors to this special issue.
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