Dimensions of Conspiracy: The Epistemic Standing of Conspiracy Theories

Building on Miranda Fricker's idea of epistemic injustice, these essays explore how knowledge, power and violence are tied together, and whose voices get heard. Contributors from several continents bring in decolonial, feminist and intercultural perspectives.

Lena Schützle, Barbara Schellhammer, Anupam Yadav, Cara-Julie Kather, Lou Thomine (eds.)

What happens when people are not believed or not understood? This collection brings theories of recognition into dialogue with epistemic injustice, with essays on testimony, strategic ignorance, schools and even algorithmic bias.

Hilkje C. Hänel and Fabian Schuppert (eds.)

Is persuasion a way of knowing? Bengtson goes back to Plato's quarrel between opinion and knowledge to rethink the role of rhetoric, and asks what that old debate can teach us about argument in a post-truth age.

Erik Bengtson

Why do we trust some sources and not others? This book argues that knowledge is built in face-to-face communities, and shows how online information, conspiracy theories and remote expertise can erode the trust that science and democracy depend on.

Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Martin Innes, Eric B. Kennedy, Will Mason-Wilkes and John McLevey