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) …

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 …

Moral Generalizations and Moral Explanatory Pluralism

A Stamatiadis-Bréhier - Acta Analytica, 2024 - Springer
I argue that moral principles, construed as moral generalizations, can be genuinely
explanatory. Specifically, I present and respond to a challenge according to which moral …

Explanatory Pluralism in Normative Ethics

P Väyrynen - 2024 - philpapers.org
Some theorists of normative explanation argue that we can make sense of debates between
first-order moral theories such as consequentialism and its rivals only if we understand their …