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Author : Daisie Radner
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Science and Unreason written by Daisie Radner and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Staddon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684513235
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Science in an Age of Unreason written by John Staddon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action. Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to ‘health and safety’—are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. These foregone conclusions may be comforting, but each capitulation to modernity’s whims threatens the integrity of scientific inquiry. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? In Science in an Age of Unreason, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today’s scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Staddon answers pressing questions, including: Is science, especially the science of evolution, a religion? Can ethics be derived from science at all? How sound is social science, particularly surrounding today’s most controversial topics? How can passions be separated from facts? Informed by decades of expertise, Science in an Age of Unreason is a clarion call to rebirth academia as a beacon of reason and truth in a society demanding its unconditional submission.
Author : Michael Rustin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056706722X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Reason and Unreason written by Michael Rustin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge and its relevance to social and political questions.
Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377121
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Age of American Unreason written by Susan Jacoby and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of “junk thought” that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
Author : Dick Taverne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578614
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The March of Unreason written by Dick Taverne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our daily news bulletins bring us tales of the wonder of science, from Mars rovers and intelligent robots to developments in cancer treatment, and yet often the emphasis is on the potential threats posed by science. It appears that irrationality is on the rise in western society, and public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and unwillingness to engage with factual evidence. From genetically modified crops and food, organic farming, the MMR vaccine, environmentalism, the precautionary principle and the new anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements, the rejection of the evidence-based approach nurtures a culture of suspicion, distrust, and cynicism, and leads to dogmatic assertion and intolerance. In this compelling and timely examination of science and society, Dick Taverne argues that science, with all the benefits it brings, is an essential part of civilised and democratic society: it offers the most hopeful future for mankind.
Author : H. Sidky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606528
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World written by H. Sidky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of 2019, Americans were living in an era of post-truth characterized by fake news, weaponized lies, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and irrationalism. While many complex interconnected factors were at work, this post-truth era was partly the culmination of a cadre of anthropologists and other academics in American universities and colleges during the 1980’s and 1990’s. In Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World, H. Sidky examines how their untoward dalliance with problematic and dangerous ideas by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard informed and empowered a forceful assault on science and truth in the following decades by corporate organizations, politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists.
Author : Ralph B. Alexander
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628943653
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Science Under Attack written by Ralph B. Alexander and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence and logic are lacking in many areas of public debate today on hot-button issues ranging from dietary fat to vaccination. In Science Under Attack, Dr. Alexander shows how science is being abused, sidelined or ignored, making it difficult or impossible for the public to form a reasoned opinion about important issues. Readers will learn why science is becoming more corrupt, and also how it is being abused for political and economic gain, support of activism, or the propping up of religious beliefs. To illustrate how science is being ignored and abused, the author examines six different issues and the way they are currently discussed: evolution, dietary fat, climate change, vaccination, GMO crops and continental drift. In his research, he has gone back to the original source wherever possible rather than quoting second-hand sources, adding a degree of accuracy and nuance often missing. The controversial assertion that science does not support the conventional wisdom on climate change should be of particular interest. Alexander shows that the scientific evidence for a substantial human contribution to climate change is actually flimsy, and he demonstrates the fallacy of comparing the strong link between smoking and lung cancer to the much weaker connection between human activity and global warming.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Reason and Unreason in Twenty-first Century Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192103
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Seduction of Unreason written by Richard Wolin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism’s infatuation with fascism has been extensive and widespread. He questions postmodernism’s claim to have inherited the mantle of the Left, suggesting instead that it has long been enamored with the opposite end of the political spectrum. Wolin reveals how, during in the 1930s, C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot were seduced by fascism's promise of political regeneration and how this misapprehension affected the intellectual core of their work. The result is a compelling and unsettling reinterpretation of the history of modern thought. In a new preface, Wolin revisits this illiberal intellectual lineage in light of the contemporary resurgence of political authoritarianism.
Author : Carles Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782384885
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Religion and Science as Forms of Life written by Carles Salazar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions expound on this theoretical and ethnographic research into different manifestations of scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.
Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438402023
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Myth written by Robert Ellwood and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. All three had intellectual roots in the anti-modern pessimism and romanticism that also helped give rise to European fascism, and all three have been accused of fascist and anti-Semitic sentiments. At the same time, they themselves tended toward individualistic views of the power of myth, believing that the world of ancient myth contained resources that could be of immense help to people baffled by the ambiguities and superficiality of modern life. Robert Ellwood details the life and thought of each mythologist and the intellectual and spiritual worlds within which they worked. He reviews the damaging charges that have been made about their politics, taking them seriously while endeavoring to put them in the context of the individual's entire career and lifetime contribution. Above all, he seeks to extract from their published work the view of the political world that seems most congruent with it.
Author : James Hannam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596982055
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Science written by James Hannam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not-So-Dark Dark Ages What they forgot to teach you in school: People in the Middle Ages did not think the world was flat The Inquisition never executed anyone because of their scientific ideologies It was medieval scientific discoveries, including various methods, that made possible Western civilization’s “Scientific Revolution” As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam debunks myths of the Middle Ages in his brilliant book The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution. Without the medieval scholars, there would be no modern science. Discover the Dark Ages and their inventions, research methods, and what conclusions they actually made about the shape of the world.
Author : Christopher Riche Evans
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374133245
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Cults of Unreason written by Christopher Riche Evans and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1974 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shawn Lawrence Otto
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609613201
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Fool Me Twice written by Shawn Lawrence Otto and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than 2 percent of Congress with any professional background in science, how can our government be trusted to lead us in the right direction? Will the media save us? Don't count on it. In early 2008, of the 2,975 questions asked the candidates for president just six mentioned the words "global warming" or "climate change," the greatest policy challenge facing America. To put that in perspective, three questions mentioned UFOs. Today the world's major unsolved challenges all revolve around science. By the 2012 election cycle, at a time when science is influencing every aspect of modern life, antiscience views from climate-change denial to creationism to vaccine refusal have become mainstream. Faced with the daunting challenges of an environment under siege, an exploding population, a falling economy and an education system slipping behind, our elected leaders are hard at work ... passing resolutions that say climate change is not real and astrology can control the weather. Shawn Lawrence Otto has written a behind-the-scenes look at how the government, our politics, and the media prevent us from finding the real solutions we need. Fool Me Twice is the clever, outraged, and frightening account of America's relationship with science—a relationship that is on the rocks at the very time we need it most.
Author : John Dunn
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465012078
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Cunning Of Unreason written by John Dunn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-01-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human action lies under the shadow of prospective regret, but there are few areas of contemporary life over which that shadow falls so darkly as it does over politics. We hear constantly that Americans are less likely than ever to vote and are increasingly cynical about the ability of politicians to effect change. Why is politics so consistently disappointing? Starting from the premise that the professional study of politics can offer us a way to understand why we have so little faith in the political process, The Cunning of Unreason explores competing definitions of politics, probing the hidden assumptions and implications of each. In energetic and engaging prose, Cambridge political theorist John Dunn makes a convincing case for the ongoing relevance of great political thinkers from Aristotle to Marx. Along the way, he bridges the academic world of political theory and the public world of debate about democracy, corruption, globalization, and the recent trend toward conservatism. A must read for every politician, spin doctor, and professional pundit, The Cunning of Unreason offers a greater understanding of the way politics works in contemporary society and what its promise is for the future.
Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810113701
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Movement written by Ernest Gellner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is the understanding of how psychoanalysis came to be so generally accepted by the public at large. The author, a sociologist, focuses on reconstructing the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests.
Author : L. Sprague deCamp
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575103531
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Land of Unreason written by L. Sprague deCamp and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. Danger, seduction and magic lay all around him. And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation.
