Publications
Where allowed I have made the following publications available here on my personal website. I also recommend looking at my PhilPeople profile.
Peer-reviewed articles
‘A (naive) view of conspiracy as collective action,’ Filosofia e Collettività, 22, 2018, pp. 61-71
‘The problem of conspiracism,’ Argumenta, 3(2), 2018, pp. 327-343, DOI: 10.23811/58.arg2017.den [Links to PDF]
Expertise and conspiracy theories [Links to pre-print PDF]
`Conspiracy theories on the basis of the evidence,’ Synthese DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1532-7 [Links to pre-print PDF]
‘Secrecy and conspiracy’ (with Martin Orr), Episteme,15(4), 2018, pp. 433-450, DOI: 10.1017/epi.2017.9 [Links to pre-print PDF]
‘The Problem of Fake News,’ Public Reason, 8(1-2), 2016 [Links to PDF]
‘When inferring to a conspiracy theory might be the best explanation,’ Social Epistemology, 30(5), 2016, pp. 572-591, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2016.1172362 [Links to pre-print PDF]
Articles
‘Between Forteana and Skepticism,’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 7(11), 2018 [Links to article]
‘Conspiracy theories and their Investigator(s),’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 6(4): 4-11, 2017 [Links to article]
‘Clearing Up Some Conceptual Confusions About Conspiracy Theory Theorising (with Martin Orr),’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 6(1): 9-16, 2017 [Links to article]
‘In defence of particularism: A reply to Stokes,’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 5(11): 27-33, 2016 [Links to article]
‘Social Science’s Conspiracy-Theory Panic: Now They Want to Cure Everyone (with Lee Basham),’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 5(10): 12-19, 2016 [Links to article]
‘Treating Conspiracy Theories Seriously: A Reply to Basham on Dentith,’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 5(9): 1-5, 2016 [Links to article]
‘Bad thinkers? Don’t be so gullible! (with Lee Basham),’ 3 Quarks Daily, August 17th, 2015 [Links to article]
Books
Treating Conspiracy Theories Seriously, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018 [Links to publisher]
The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 [Links to publisher]
Book chapters
(with Brian L. Keeley) ‘The applied epistemology of conspiracy theories’ in The Routledge Handbook on Applied Epistemology, (eds. David Coady & James Chase), Routledge, 2018
‘The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory: Bringing the Epistemology of a Freighted Term into the Social Sciences’ in Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them (ed. Joe Uscinski), Oxford University Press, 2018
‘Have you Heard? – The Rumour as Reliable’ in Rumours and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age (ed. Greg Dalziel), Routledge, 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of “Inferno”, by Dan Brown, at the Berlin Review of Books
Voodoo Scholarship on Voodoo Histories, Scoop Review of Books, 2009.
A Reader’s Guide to Conspiracy Theory, Scoop Review of Books, 2009.