Introduction: Conspiracy Theories Today: What Problems, what Solutions?

For several decades, conspiracy theories have been regularly denounced by all the disciplines that have taken up the phenomenon. Deemed obscurantist, superstitious, or simplistic, they have been singled out for their tendency to falsify facts in history, law, politics, and science; but they have al...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Danblon, Emmanuelle, Donckier de Donceel, Lucie
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منشور في: Argumentation et analyse du discours 2024
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الملخص:For several decades, conspiracy theories have been regularly denounced by all the disciplines that have taken up the phenomenon. Deemed obscurantist, superstitious, or simplistic, they have been singled out for their tendency to falsify facts in history, law, politics, and science; but they have also been pointed out as evidence of errors of judgment and reasoning. In the fallacious nature that they are acknowledged to have, they are said sometimes to be intended to deceive and sometimes to ...