Titel: PPE in a Time of Pandemic: Conspiracy Theories, Truth, and the Pandemic

Beginn: 18.3.2021, 13:00 -14:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Zoom

Referenten: Rachel Fraser (University of Oxford), C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)

Weitere Informationen:
https://ppe.unc.edu/event/ppe-in-a-time-of-pandemic-conspiracy-theorie ...

Kurzbeschreibung: During the Pandemic, many of us have spent a lot of time alone, and a lot of time online. These circumstances seem to have favored the emergence of a range of potent conspiracy theories. Some of these theories pertain to COVID-19 or the vaccination program against it, while others implicate pizza restaurants, popular elections, and cellular broadband technology. These conspiracy theories may have had their origins in shady outposts of the internet, but many of them have since "mainstreamed", and have been implicated in large-scale political movements, including the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

In this edition of PPE in a Time of a Pandemic, we will consider conspiracy theories: what are they, what relation do they bear to truth, how do they take hold of us, how can we free ourselves from them or guard ourselves against them, and what might happen if they acquire significant political backing?

We invite you to join us for a live panel discussion with Professors Rachel Fraser (Oxford University) and C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah). Professor Fraser works on epistemology, feminist philosophy and the philosophy of language. Her published work appears in journals including Ethics, Philosophical Studies and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. She recently wrote a piece on conspiracy theories for the Cambridge Humanities Review. Professor Nguyen writes on trust, art, and games, and recently published a book: "Games, Agency as Art" (Oxford University Press), as well as complementary papers in the journals Mind, Philosophical Imprint and Philosophical Review. He has a widely cited Aeon piece on online echo chambers.

In a conversation moderated by Ryan Doody (University of San Diego), Professors Fraser and Nguyen will discuss conspiracy theories and their research as it bears on the present moment.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kontakt: ppeprogram@unc.edu
https://ppe.unc.edu/

Veranstalter: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill