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What's Epistemically Wrong with Conspiracy Theorising?

The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy

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Are There Negative Epistemic Traits and Processes Characteristic of Conspiracy Theorizing?

In section three, conspiracy theorizing and epistemic vice. This is stuff we've looked at before, in particular the Cassium-Kassam stuff. It seems prima facie plausible that conspiracy theorizing typically involves the manifestation of  epistemic vice understood thusly. But it is worth considering in greater detail whether conspiracy theorists exhibit intellectual vices in such a way as to be worthy of criticism. To some extent, in the answer to this question, must await empirical study, and so the answer given here will be speculative. Strong considerations militate against the idea that conspiracy theorists exhibit familiar Epistemically vicious character traits to a greater degree than the counterparts.

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