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Secrets and conspiracies have always played an important role in human history, and today conspiracy theories have become a rather disconcerting practice for picturing our world and our relations with each other. How seriously are we to take them, then? Are we to completely discard them as political rhetoric, purposeful misinformation, or even individual delusions? Or should we take them as serious, perhaps even scientific theories? This collection purports to provide a sober analysis of the much-debated issues and tries to develop and outline conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of what secrets and conspiracies truly are.

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Olli Loukola, DSocSci (1999), Docent (2001), University of Helsinki, is University Lecturer of Practical Philosophy and Member of Teachers' Academy at that university. He has published extensively on ethics, political philosophy and environmental philosophy. Leonidas Donskis (1962-2016) was a Lithuanian philosopher, historian of ideas, social analyst, political commentator, and public intellectual. From 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University, serving from 2005 to 2009 as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy. From 2009 to 2014 he was a Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament. He authored more than 50 books and 500 articles. Contributors are Timo Airaksinen, Cătălin Avramescu, David Coady, Leonidas Donskis, Vladimir Fours, Manfred J. Holler, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Ginna Husting, Saara Jantunen, Barbara Klose-Ullmann, Olli Loukola, Charles Pigden, Hubert Schleichert, Christopher Stevens, Tõnu Viik.

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