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If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, we might well expect to have a great deal of philosophic fraud as well. But how can we detect philosophy’s fraudsters? Here’s a first attempt at some rules of thumb.

This is a long post. So here’s the short version: this post argues that an unknown but non-zero portion of philosophical work is likely to be fraud. That is to say, some philosophical work knowingly offers fake wisdom rather than genuine insight. (I use Jacques Lacan as a likely example.)