Dr. Scott Hill, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently published his article “Where Are the Generalists?” in the journal, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.
Dr. Hill argues in favor of the paper “Why We Should Stop Talking about Generalism and Particularism: Moving the Debate on Conspiracy Theories Forward” by Maarten Boudry and M. Giulia Napolitano, which makes the argument that the generalist/particularist distinction is not a fruitful one when used in the context of “conspiracy theories.” Dr. Hill offers counters to arguments made by M R.X Dentith and Melina Tsapos in their paper, “Why We Should Talk about Generalism and Particularism: A Reply to Boudry and Napolitano,” which offered critics of Boundy and Napolitano’s paper.