Cassim Quassam on Conspiracy Theories

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What is a conspiracy? Why do conspiracies - real or imagined - matter to philsophy? Cassim Quaassam explores these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton

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0:00.0	This is
0:03.2	This is Philosophy Bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds
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0:21.6	As I'm sure you know, the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York were in fact secretly
0:26.8	orchestrated by the FBI and Israeli agents with the sinister objective of
0:32.0	formatting anti-Arab sentiment in the West.
0:35.0	Hmm, well, thankfully being a listener to philosophy bites, it's unlikely you'll believe that
0:39.8	hogwash.
0:40.8	But a scary number of people do or some version of it and
0:44.0	Kasim Kasam of Warwick University says that's of considerable philosophical interest.
0:49.8	Kasim Kasam, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:52.8	Hello.
0:53.8	The topic we're going to focus on is conspiracy theories,
0:58.1	which is not an obvious topic for a philosopher.
1:01.0	What's going on here?
1:01.7	What are we talking about?
1:03.0	So a conspiracy theory is an attempt to explain an event, usually a major political event,
1:09.0	by reference to the activities of a group of individuals or an organization who brought the event
1:16.4	about but who are concealing their role in bringing it about.
1:21.8	So this is neutral.
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