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Who Trusts the Government?

May 21 (M)- Seminar: Trust, Reliance, and Miracles

Read:

  • Selections from Dentith, M.R.X. (2014). The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories. New York: Palgrave.
  • Keeley, B.L. (1999). Of Conspiracy Theories. The Journal of Philosophy 96(3): 109-126.

You may visit the supplementary material on “Trust, Reliance, and Miracles” covered in the lecture. It is not required.

Trust, Reliance, and Miracles

 

May 23 (W)- Seminar: Trustworthiness, Reputation, and Authority

Read:

  • Selections from Dentith, M.R.X. (2014). The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories. New York: Palgrave.
  • Gellner, E. (1988). “Trust, Cohesion, and the Social Order.” In Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, ed. D. Gambetta, Pp. 142-157. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

You may visit the supplementary material on suggested materials on “Trustworthiness, Reputation, and Authority” covered in the lecture. It is not required.

Trustworthiness, Reputation, and Authority

 

May 25 (F)- Seminar: Mistrust, Distrust, and Denial 

Read:

  • Selections from Carey, M. (2017). Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory. Chicago: HAU Books.
  • Bakalaki, A. (2016). Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World. Visual Anthropology Review 32(1): 12–23.
  • Read: McIntyre, L. (2018). Post-truth, Pp. 17-34. Cambridge: MIT Press.

You may join us in a discussion on chemtrail, climate change, and flat earth conspiracy theories. It is not required.

Discussion: Chemtrails, Climate, and Flat Earth

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