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SUMMARY: 'If You Are Not a Conspiracy Theorist Then You Ar
 e an Idiot' - Charles Pigden
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131022T170000
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UID:TALK47011AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/47011
DESCRIPTION:An open lecture with Charles Pigden supported by t
 he Leverhulme funded Conspiracy and Democracy Rese
 arch Project at CRASSH:\n\n'If You Are Not A Consp
 iracy Theorist Then You are an Idiot'\n\na) A cons
 piracy theory is a theory that explains some event
  or events as due in part to a conspiracy\, that i
 s\, to a secret plan to influence events by partly
 \nsecret means.\nb) Every historically and politic
 ally literate person employs the strategy of somet
 imes believing (and sometimes being prepared to be
 lieve) conspiracy theories.\nc) Every historically
  and politically literate person is a conspiracy t
 heorist.\nd) The only way not to be a conspiracy t
 heorist is to be historically and politically illi
 terate that is to be\, in the Greek sense of the w
 ord\, an idiot.\nf) Therefore if you are not a con
 spiracy theorist then you are an idiot. \n\nThe le
 cture will be followed by a wine reception.\n\nCha
 rles Pigden\, MA (1983)(Cambridge) PhD (1985)(La T
 robe)\, is Director of Philosophy Politics and Eco
 nomics (PHPE or PPE) at University of Otago. He ha
 s edited 'Russell on Ethics' (1999) (winner of the
  Bertrand Russell Society Book Award for 2000)\, c
 ontributed the chapter on ethics to the 'Cambridge
  Companion to Bertrand Russell' and written the en
 try on 'Russell’s Moral Philosophy' for the 'Stanf
 ord Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy'. 
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\,
  Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Tamsin Astbury
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