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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/conspiracy-theories-are-not-fi
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SUMMARY:Conspiracy Theories Are Not Fictions
DESCRIPTION:On September 10\, 2024\, during the Harris-Trump ABC presidenti
 al debate\, Donald Trump uttered (i):\n(i) In Springfield\, they are eatin
 g the dogs. The people that came in\, they are eating the cats. They’re 
 eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there\nAdmitti
 ng in a CNN interview on September 15 that the claim was false (he had als
 o made it before Trump\, knowing its falsity after a call to Springfield
 ’s Republican major)\, the current US Vice President JD Vance said that 
 “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays at
 tention to the suffering of the American people\, then that’s what I'm g
 oing to do”. Both Trump's and his own utterances about Springfield lacke
 d assertoric commitments\; they were just fictions\, even if\, as such\, t
 hey were meant to convey assertoric commitment to some general claims (say
 \, that immigrants cause much suffering to US citizens)\n\nSome philosophe
 rs have recently defended this sort of view about conspiracy theories. Ich
 ino (2022) argues that they are fictions in the somehow revisionary way ar
 ticulated by Kendall Walton (1990)\; while Munro &amp\; Rini (forthcoming)
  argue that “conspiracy theorizing is a form of shared\, participatory s
 torytelling”. While the latter at least accept that some storytelling is
  done with assertoric force\, they emphasize cases in which it is meant as
  just fiction. In support of their views\, these authors point out that co
 nspiracy theorists don’t show a very strong belief attachment to their v
 iews – sometimes accepting inconsistent theories – and fail to act on 
 the basis of their conspiracy theories\, among other considerations. In my
  talk I’ll argue that the data is compatible with a straightforward asse
 rtoric commitment to their theories by conspiracy theorists\, and that the
  fictionalist accounts have unacceptable normative implications.
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LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia (Faculty of Philosophy\, UB\, Barcelona)
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