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Giving the Devil His Due

Autor Michael Shermer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 2020

Descoperim în Giving the Devil his Due o arhitectură argumentativă riguroasă, organizată sub forma unei colecții de eseuri menite să testeze limitele toleranței intelectuale. Michael Shermer își structurează materialul în jurul a cinci piloni fundamentali: de la epistemologia liberei exprimări și nuanțele politicii sociale, până la rigoarea umanismului științific și analiza fenomenului religios. Metodologia sa nu este una pur teoretică; autorul alege deliberat „avocatul diavolului” ca figură centrală, argumentând că siguranța propriei noastre libertăți depinde de dreptul celui cu care nu suntem de acord de a-și exprima opiniile, oricât de neplăcute ar părea. Găsim în această carte o progresie logică ce pornește de la principiul inviolabilității cercetării științifice și ajunge la analize pragmatice despre tensiunile din campusurile universitare moderne. Cartea reprezintă o alternativă necesară la Kindly Inquisitors de Jonathan Rauch pentru cursurile de drepturile omului sau filozofie politică, cu avantajul unei ancorări puternice în scepticismul științific și în dezbaterile contemporane despre „hate speech”. În timp ce Kindly Inquisitors se concentrează pe sistemul epistemologic liberal, Michael Shermer extinde discuția spre impactul ideilor controversate în spațiul public și științific. Poziționată în contextul operei sale, lucrarea continuă explorarea credințelor umane începută în The Believing Brain, dar se distanțează de abordarea pur biologică sau psihologică. Dacă în Heavens on Earth autorul analiza obsesia pentru viața de apoi, aici se concentrează pe viața cetății și pe mecanismele care permit progresul cunoașterii. Este o sinteză a carierei sale de „sceptic profesionist”, oferind un cadru în care rațiunea și libertatea de interogare sunt singurele instrumente valide împotriva dogmatismului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108489782
ISBN-10: 1108489788
Pagini: 366
Ilustrații: 22 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Suntem de părere că această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă de ce cenzura, chiar și atunci când vizează idei eronate, este un pericol sistemic. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra distincției dintre libertatea de exprimare și validarea științifică. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru studenții la științe politice, jurnaliști sau pasionați de dezbatere critică, oferind instrumentele necesare pentru a apăra pluralismul într-o epocă a polarizării.


Despre autor

Michael Shermer este un autor de succes, cunoscut pentru titluri precum The Moral Arc și Why People Believe Weird Things, lucrări ce investighează evoluția credințelor și a comportamentului uman. În calitate de editor fondator al revistei Skeptic și editorialist pentru Scientific American, Shermer s-a impus ca una dintre cele mai influente voci ale scepticismului modern. Activitatea sa academică ca Presidential Fellow la Chapman University completează profilul său de cercetător dedicat promovării rațiunii și metodei științifice în fața pseudoștiinței și a dogmelor ideologice.


Descriere scurtă

Who is the 'Devil'? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence 'unpleasant' ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.

Cuprins

Introduction. Who is the Devil and what is he due?; Part I. The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech: 1. Giving the Devil his due: why freedom of inquiry and speech in science and politics is inviolable; 2. Banning evil: in the shadow of the Christchurch massacre, myths about evil and hate speech are misleading; 3. Free speech even if it hurts: defending Holocaust denier David Irving; 4. Free to inquire: the evolution-creationism controversy as a test case in equal time and free speech; 5. Ben Stein's blunder: why intelligent design advocates are not free speech martyrs; 6. What went wrong? Campus unrest, viewpoint diversity, and freedom of speech; Part II. Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion: 7. E pluribus unum for all faiths and for none; 8. Atheism and liberty: raising consciousness for religious skepticism through political freedom; 9. The curious case of Scientology: is it a religion or a cult?; 10. Does the Universe have a purpose?; 11. Why is there something rather than nothing?; Part III. Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society: 12. Another dream deferred: how identity politics, intersectionality theory, and tribal divisiveness are inverting Martin Luther King, Jr's dream; 13. Healing the bonds of affection: the case for classical liberalism; 14. Governing mars: lessons for the red planet from experiments in governing the blue planet; 15. The Sandy Hook effect: what we can and cannot do about gun violence; 16. On guns and tyranny; 17. Debating guns: what conservatives and liberals really differ on about guns (and everything else); 18. Another fatal conceit: the lesson from evolutionary economics is bottom-up self-organization, not top-down government design; Part IV. Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism: 19. Scientific naturalism: a manifesto for Enlightenment humanism; 20. Mr Hume: tear. Down. This. Wall.; 21. Kardashev's types and Sparks' law: how to build civilization 1.0; 22. How lives turn out: genes, environment, and luck – what we can and cannot control; Part V. Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals: 23. Transcendent man: an elegaic essay to Paul Kurtz – a skeptic's skeptic; 24. The real hitch: did Christopher Hitchens really keep two sets of books about his beliefs?; 25. The skeptic's chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism; 26. Have archetype – will travel: the Jordan Peterson phenomenon; 27. Romancing the past: Graham Hancock and the quest for a lost civilization.

Recenzii

'Michael Shermer is our most fearless explorer of alternative, crackpot, and dangerous ideas, and at the same time one of our most powerful voices for science, sanity, and humane values. In this engrossing collection, Shermer shows why these missions are consistent: it's the searchlight of reason that best exposes errors and evil.' Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
'This is a rather difficult book for me to blurb, given that an entire chapter is devoted to criticizing my claims about pragmatic truth vis-à-vis scientific truth. However, Dr. Michael Shermer is a very clear thinker, and the kind of skeptic that is always necessary to ensure that public thought, scientific and otherwise, maintains a certain clarity. He's a passionate advocate of free speech, for this and many other reasons - to the point of entitling his new book Giving the Devil His Due, which is devoted to many worthwhile topics, but to free speech above all. Despite our disagreements, this is a necessary book for our times. Read it. And thank God and the powers that be that you have the right to do so.' Jordan B. Peterson, University of Toronto, and author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
'Michael Shermer is a fearless defender of free speech, open inquiry, and freedom of thought and conscience, including - and especially - for those with whom he disagrees. Giving the Devil His Due is one of the strongest bulwarks against the tyranny of censorship that I have read.' Nadine Strossen, New York University, former President of the ACLU, and author of Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship
'… a detailed roadmap for thinking well and clearly about interesting and challenging ideas. This vivid, erudite, broad, and deep collection of essays is marvelously written - so much so that, as you finish one essay, you cannot resist starting the next. And the range - from ancient civilizations to the colonization of Mars, from free speech on campus to gun control in cities - is as astonishing as it is engaging.' Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Ph.D, author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
'As always, Michael Shermer is hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and brilliant. The fascinating essays in this wide-ranging book will make you think - and then rethink.' Amy Chua, Yale University, and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
'Michael Shermer is the voice of reason, and this is a book of his best essays - the ones we most need to read to understand the madness of our time and to imagine a more reasonable future. The range of questions Shermer addresses and the breadth of his knowledge make this book a delight to read.' Jonathan Haidt, New York University, author of The Righteous Mind, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind
'Giving the Devil His Due is a treasure trove for lovers of the humanities and society at large as viewed through the perspective of scholarly minds, treatises, and essays. It's marvelously ripened and full of wonderful tales… ' Robert Hunziker, Counterpunch
'A powerful case is made here for why free speech is the best way to drive out bad ideas and fake news.' The Times
'A collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas.' Christopher Silvester, The Critic
'Each essay is well crafted to provoke thoughtful reflection and amply referenced for those who wish to dig deeper into each topic … However, for any reader new to scepticism, Giving the Devil his Due would be an auspicious place to start.' Don Carpenetti, Chemistry World

Descriere

Explores how free speech and open inquiry are integral to science, politics, and society for the survival and progress of our species.