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Anti-social Black Metal Epistemology: Forming Beliefs without Trust in an Evil Environment
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4052-9630
2026 (English)In: The Heaviest Ideas in the Universe: A Philosophy of Heavy Metal / [ed] J. Aaron Simmons; Benjamin W. McCraw, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2026, p. 241-257Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Trust plays an important role in human life and society. This chapter analyses the role of trust in the epistemology of testimony. It presents the anti-social epistemology of black metal, mainly based on the interpretation of the lyrics from songs by Gorgoroth and another Norwegian black metal band from the same wave. Starting with some conceptual analysis, several philosophers classify trust as a kind of reliance. Assuming for the sake of argument that trust provides an epistemic boost as the assurance theorists claim, in the good scenario where the informant really is trustworthy one may miss out epistemically, as well as morally and socially by treating people like thermometers, but in the bad scenario, the evil environment the metalhead thinks they inhabit, where most informants in fact are untrustworthy, and are safeguarded from a massive load of misinformation.

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Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2026. p. 241-257
Keywords [en]
anti-social black metal, epistemology, evil environment, metalhead, reliance, testimony trust
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Philosophy
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Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-258341DOI: 10.1002/9781394330775Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105045086221ISBN: 978-1-394-33074-4 (print)ISBN: 978-1-394-33076-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-258341DiVA, id: diva2:2094273
Available from: 2026-08-21 Created: 2026-08-21 Last updated: 2026-09-01Bibliographically approved

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