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SUMMARY: 'If You Are Not a Conspiracy Theorist Then You Are an Idiot' - Ch
 arles Pigden
DTSTART:20131022T160000Z
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CONTACT:Tamsin Astbury
DESCRIPTION:An open lecture with Charles Pigden supported by the Leverhulm
 e funded Conspiracy and Democracy Research Project at CRASSH:\n\n'If You A
 re Not A Conspiracy Theorist Then You are an Idiot'\n\na) A conspiracy the
 ory is a theory that explains some event or events as due in part to a con
 spiracy\, that is\, to a secret plan to influence events by partly\nsecret
  means.\nb) Every historically and politically literate person employs the
  strategy of sometimes believing (and sometimes being prepared to believe)
  conspiracy theories.\nc) Every historically and politically literate pers
 on is a conspiracy theorist.\nd) The only way not to be a conspiracy theor
 ist is to be historically and politically illiterate that is to be\, in th
 e Greek sense of the word\, an idiot.\nf) Therefore if you are not a consp
 iracy theorist then you are an idiot. \n\nThe lecture will be followed by 
 a wine reception.\n\nCharles Pigden\, MA (1983)(Cambridge) PhD (1985)(La T
 robe)\, is Director of Philosophy Politics and Economics (PHPE or PPE) at 
 University of Otago. He has edited 'Russell on Ethics' (1999) (winner of t
 he Bertrand Russell Society Book Award for 2000)\, contributed the chapter
  on ethics to the 'Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell' and written th
 e entry on 'Russell’s Moral Philosophy' for the 'Stanford Online Encyclo
 pedia of Philosophy'. 
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
 3 9DT
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