[Book Review]: "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe in Them"

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dc.contributor.authorTurner, Hossein
dc.contributor.otherMedeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-22T08:31:32Z
dc.date.available2021-02-22T08:31:32Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentİHÜ, Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
dc.description.abstractJoseph Uscinski’s multi-author volume attempts to bring together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomena of conspiracy theories (CTs) into one book. Given the significant epistemological disagreements between the disciplines that exist in the field of conspiracy theory research, it is fair to say that Uscinski has done a good job in producing a volume that balances the opposing perspectives. The book is comprised of the views of 40 academics from across a host of different disciplines. The volume partly stems from a 2015 conference on CTs that was organized and hosted by Uscinski; at that conference, there was a clear disagreement between the philosophers and the psychologists/social psychologists on the importance of studying conspiracies as ideas or as mental formations. The philosophers accused the psychologists of pathologizing people who espouse CTs rather than assessing their truth claims and the reasoning of the ideas presented. The psychologists in turn accused the philosophers of merely asking more questions and not pursuing research programs.1 The book reflects and features this balkanized difference of approach...
dc.identifier.citationTurner, H. (2021). [Book Review]: "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe in Them, by Joseph E. Uscinski Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 511 pages, $31.95, ISBN: 9780190844080". Insight Turkey, 22(4), 284-287.
dc.identifier.endpage287
dc.identifier.issn1302-177X
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.startpage284
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/1371
dc.identifier.volume22
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000610608400024
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.institutionauthorTurner, Hossein
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSETA
dc.relation.ihupublicationcategory117
dc.relation.ispartofInsight Turkey
dc.relation.publicationcategoryDiğer
dc.relation.publicationcategoryÖğrenci
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectJoseph Uscinski
dc.subjectReviews
dc.subjectConspiracy Theories
dc.title[Book Review]: "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe in Them"
dc.typeBook Review
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