Description
Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the modern era, due to the volume of misinformation, the speed with which it can be digitally disseminated, and the savvy exploitation of our cognitive weaknesses by those who wish to advance their ideological agendas. In Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age, McIntyre issues a call to fight back against this slide into the witless abyss. In the tradition of Galileo, the author champions the importance of using tested scientific methods for arriving at true beliefs, and shows how our future survival is dependent on a more widespread, reasonable world.
Author: Lee McIntyre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/17/2015
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781138888814
ISBN10: 1138888818
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Epistemology
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Movements | General
About the Author
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and author of Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (MIT Press, 2006). He is co-editor (with Alex Rosenberg) of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science.
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