{"id":404,"date":"2016-03-01T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/?p=404"},"modified":"2016-03-01T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:53:44","slug":"seminar-on-conspiracy-theorizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/2016\/03\/01\/seminar-on-conspiracy-theorizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Conspiracy Theorizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/Lee-Basham.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-406\" src=\"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/Lee-Basham-879x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Basham Kuva: Mika H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen \" width=\"343\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Basham. Kuva: Mika H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philosophers had a workshop that concerned philosophical issues of conspiracy theories. After Juha R\u00e4ikk\u00e4\u2019s brief introduction, Lee Basham (Texas) presented a paper about \u201ctoxic stories\u201d. Those stories (or news) are dangerous for the social stability and economy and many people feel that they should not be investigated. Often they are conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Dentith (Auckland) pointed out that the question of the definition of \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d is crucial. Conspiracy theories are plausible if \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d refers to type of explation that is plausible. Talking about \u201ctypes\u201d may be misleading, however, as all conspiracy theories should be evaluated on a case by case basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophers had a workshop that concerned philosophical issues of conspiracy theories. After Juha R\u00e4ikk\u00e4\u2019s brief introduction, Lee Basham (Texas) presented a paper about \u201ctoxic stories\u201d. Those stories (or news) are dangerous for the social stability and economy and many people feel that they should not be investigated. Often they are conspiracy theories. Matthew Dentith (Auckland) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/2016\/03\/01\/seminar-on-conspiracy-theorizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Jatka lukemista<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;Seminar on Conspiracy Theorizing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminaari-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/filosofia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}