This podcast episode is a modified excerpt from the Appendix, “9/11 and Epistemic Authorities,” taken from the book Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique, published in 2022, by Kurtis Hagen. This excerpt focuses on the reliability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the World Trade Center on 9/11 2001.

This podcast episode is a modified excerpt from the Appendix, “9/11 and Epistemic Authorities,” taken from the book Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique, published in 2022, by Kurtis Hagen. This excerpt focuses on the reliability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the World Trade Center on 9/11 2001.

NIST and the World Trade Center Catastrophe

This podcast includes summaries of my work on the philosophy of conspiracy theory, which includes critiques of academic efforts to justify the summary dismissal of conspiracy theories. I defend a "particularist" position, according to which each particular conspiracy theory ought to be judged on it own particular merits and faults. This view is defended by many of the most well-published philosophers on this topic: David Coady, Charles Pigden, M Dentith, Lee Basham, Brian Keeley, and Juha Räikkä, as well as myself, Kurtis Hagen.

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NIST and the World Trade Center Catastrophe

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