Respecting truth: willful ignorance in the Internet age
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 Int…
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- Full title :Respecting truth : willful ignorance in the Internet age / Lee McIntyre.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 150 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138888807, 113888880X, 9781138888814, 1138888818
- oclc:ocn896601738
- LC Classification:B824.2
- Dewey Decimal:153.4/301
Table of Contents
Attitudes Toward Truth: Willful Ignorance and the Last Glimpse of Shoreline -- The Value of Truth: Should My Genes Care Whether I Can Justify My Belief That a Tiger is Corning Toward Me? -- The Roots of Human Irrationality: Behavioral Economics, Self-Deception, and Lawn Chair Larry -- The Assault on Truth and the Triumph of Ideology; The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Climate Change, and the "Myth" of Race -- Sources of (Mis)information: Why the Media Worship Objectivity but the Ivory Tower Rejects Truth -- Sources of Hope: The Wisdom of Crowds, Group Benefits, and Why Wikipedia is More Reliable than You Think -- A More/Reasonable World: Better Living Through Empirical Social Science.
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