ABSTRACT
A reply to Tahir Abbas, Naomi Kloosterboer, and Rik Peels, focusing on the issues of radicalisation, normativity, and fundamentalism
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1. Neumann (Citation2013).
2. Horgan (Citation2003).
3. Saucier et al. (Citation2009).
4. As Eric Hoffer noted long ago. See Hoffer (Citation1951).
5. Cassam (Citation2018).
6. Beck (Citation2015).
7. Wittgenstein (Citation1977).
8. Berlin (Citation2013).
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Quassim Cassam
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of 7 books, including Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political (Oxford 2019) and Conspiracy Theories (Polity 2019). His main research interests are epistemology, the philosophy of extremism and terrorism, conspiracy theories, the self and self-knowledge, and the philosophy of general practice. Before coming to Warwick, Quassim was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy at UCL, and Reader in Philosophy at Oxford.