The power of second-order conspiracies

A Stamatiadis-Bréhier - Inquiry, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A second-order conspiracy (SOC) is a conspiracy that aims to create (and
typically also disseminate) a conspiracy theory. Second-order conspiracy theories (SOCT) …

The revenge of moral twin earth

A Stamatiadis-Bréhier - Inquiry, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper I revisit an important response to the Moral Twin Earth (MTE) challenge: The
Common Functional Role strategy (CFR). I argue that CFR is open to a revenge problem …

Social kind realism as relative frame manipulability

Y Karagiannopoulos, A Stamatiadis-Bréhier - Philosophical Studies, 2024 - Springer
In this paper we introduce the view that realism about a social kind K entails that the
grounding conditions of K are difficult (or impossible) to manipulate. In other words, we …

Against cross-world anchoring

Y Karagiannopoulos, A Stamatiadis-Bréhier - Synthese, 2024 - Springer
A social fact S is grounded by some plurality of grounds. And the fact that S has the
grounding-conditions it does is anchored by some set of anchors. Epstein has recently …