Giving the devil his due : reflections of a scientific humanist /

Giving the devil his due : reflections of a scientific humanist / Michael Shermer.

"To be sure, I will confess that when I see racist assholes like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor spouting their ignorant beliefs about blacks and Jews in half-empty hotel conference rooms or to a rag-tag mob of tiki torch-carrying thugs in a public park, the urge to "punch a Nazi" we...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Shermer, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Freedom of speech.
Democracy.
Political culture.
Humanism.
Freedom of expression.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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: The Case for Belief Pluralism
  • 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?: Alvy's Error and the Meaning of Life
  • 11 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Answering the Biggest Question of Them All
  • 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.: A Response to George Ellis' Critique of My Defense of Moral Realism
  • 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 Elegiac 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

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