Michael Shermer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 72780 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Shermer |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Shermer |
| ASSINATURA | SHERMER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Chapman University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Truth
A clear-eyed look at thinking straight in a world crowded with noise, bias, and misinformation."Fake news." "Alternative facts." "Post-truth." Misinformation is everywhere, sparking public confusion and polarization. In Truth, best-selling author Michael Shermer cuts through the noise to argue that not only does truth still matter—but also that it's essential to our individual and collective flourishing. This sharp-sighted and accessible book pro…
Loneliness and political intolerance
Conspiracy
The New Nones
While political scientists have investigated political non-affiliation and religious scholars have investigated religious non-affiliation, no work has yet examined the correlates of those identifying as both religiously and politically non-affiliated. Across two separate studies, we investigate the personality, social network, and cultural engagement correlates of political and religious non-affiliates. Some statistically significant effects foun…
Conspiracy
Tracking Science
In response to recent discussion about terminology, we propose "tracking science" as a term that is more inclusive than citizen science. Our suggestion is set against a post-colonial political background and large-scale migrations, in which "citizen" is becoming an increasingly contentious term. As a diverse group of authors from several continents, our priority is to deliberate a term that is all-inclusive, so that it could be adopted by everyon…
Giving the Devil his Due
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 …
Racial dynamics underlying crime commission, emotionality, and last statements among executed offenders in Texas
We consider here whether African-Americans executed on death row in Texas are consequently (a) more likely to have committed economically-motivated secondary crimes during the commission of homicide/attempted homicide, and whether these inmates were (b) less likely to express being sorry in their final statements before execution. Our study revealed support for the following hypothesized patterns: Caucasian offenders used a greater number of sorr…
Giving the Devil his Due
Giving the Devil His Due
The Believing Brain
Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well
Resisting the Understandable Appeal of CAM
OP-ED Resisting the
Rumsfeld's Wisdom
The Punctuated Politics of Stephen Jay Gould
This View of Science
The View of Science
Science historian Ronald Numbers once remarked that the two most influential historians of science of the 20th century were Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Jay Gould. All historians are deeply familiar with Kuhn's work and influence, and most know of the remarkable impact Gould has had on evolutionary theory through both his professional and popular works. But little attention has been paid to the depth, scope, and importance of Gould's rôle as historian…
Exorcising Laplace's Demon
L'A. etudie l'application dans les annees 1980 du paradigme du comportement chaotique de la dynamique non-lineaire aux sciences sociales et historiques. Le theme du chaos de l'histoire, double d'une inevitable modelisation du passe, aboutit a une nouvelle historiographie definissant une metahistoire et une histoire non-lineaire, auxquelles echappent les developpements historiques et sociaux paralleles (dans un sens anti-chaotique). L'A. exorcise …
Reply to the Letter to the Editor
Science Defended, Science Defined
On August 18, 1986, seventy-two Nobel laureates, seventeen state academies of science, and seven other scientific organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in which they defined and agreed upon the nature and scope of science. The brief was submitted in response to the Louisiana Balanced TreatmentAct for creation science and evolution science that had been struck down in the Federal Court of Louisian…
Darwin, Freud, and the Myth of the Hero in Science
Arguments about whether heroes in sctence are "great men" or products of their culture rest on a false dichotomy created, in part, by the participants themselves. History may be modeled as a contingency matrix—a massively conditioned and crucially dependent multitude of linkages across space and time. The hero is molded into, and helps to mold the shape of, those connections. A hero in history is a great individual who altered history's contingen…
This View of Science
The View of Science
Science historian Ronald Numbers once remarked that the two most influential historians of science of the 20th century were Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Jay Gould. All historians are deeply familiar with Kuhn's work and influence, and most know of the remarkable impact Gould has had on evolutionary theory through both his professional and popular works. But little attention has been paid to the depth, scope, and importance of Gould's rôle as historian…
Tracking Science
In response to recent discussion about terminology, we propose "tracking science" as a term that is more inclusive than citizen science. Our suggestion is set against a post-colonial political background and large-scale migrations, in which "citizen" is becoming an increasingly contentious term. As a diverse group of authors from several continents, our priority is to deliberate a term that is all-inclusive, so that it could be adopted by everyon…
Exorcising Laplace's Demon
L'A. etudie l'application dans les annees 1980 du paradigme du comportement chaotique de la dynamique non-lineaire aux sciences sociales et historiques. Le theme du chaos de l'histoire, double d'une inevitable modelisation du passe, aboutit a une nouvelle historiographie definissant une metahistoire et une histoire non-lineaire, auxquelles echappent les developpements historiques et sociaux paralleles (dans un sens anti-chaotique). L'A. exorcise …
The New Nones
While political scientists have investigated political non-affiliation and religious scholars have investigated religious non-affiliation, no work has yet examined the correlates of those identifying as both religiously and politically non-affiliated. Across two separate studies, we investigate the personality, social network, and cultural engagement correlates of political and religious non-affiliates. Some statistically significant effects foun…
The Punctuated Politics of Stephen Jay Gould
Science Defended, Science Defined
On August 18, 1986, seventy-two Nobel laureates, seventeen state academies of science, and seven other scientific organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in which they defined and agreed upon the nature and scope of science. The brief was submitted in response to the Louisiana Balanced TreatmentAct for creation science and evolution science that had been struck down in the Federal Court of Louisian…
Darwin, Freud, and the Myth of the Hero in Science
Arguments about whether heroes in sctence are "great men" or products of their culture rest on a false dichotomy created, in part, by the participants themselves. History may be modeled as a contingency matrix—a massively conditioned and crucially dependent multitude of linkages across space and time. The hero is molded into, and helps to mold the shape of, those connections. A hero in history is a great individual who altered history's contingen…
Science Defended, Science Defined
On August 18, 1986, seventy-two Nobel laureates, seventeen state academies of science, and seven other scientific organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in which they defined and agreed upon the nature and scope of science. The brief was submitted in response to the Louisiana Balanced TreatmentAct for creation science and evolution science that had been struck down in the Federal Court of Louisian…
Reply to the Letter to the Editor
Exorcising Laplace's Demon
L'A. etudie l'application dans les annees 1980 du paradigme du comportement chaotique de la dynamique non-lineaire aux sciences sociales et historiques. Le theme du chaos de l'histoire, double d'une inevitable modelisation du passe, aboutit a une nouvelle historiographie definissant une metahistoire et une histoire non-lineaire, auxquelles echappent les developpements historiques et sociaux paralleles (dans un sens anti-chaotique). L'A. exorcise …
This View of Science
The View of Science
Science historian Ronald Numbers once remarked that the two most influential historians of science of the 20th century were Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Jay Gould. All historians are deeply familiar with Kuhn's work and influence, and most know of the remarkable impact Gould has had on evolutionary theory through both his professional and popular works. But little attention has been paid to the depth, scope, and importance of Gould's rôle as historian…
The Punctuated Politics of Stephen Jay Gould
Rumsfeld's Wisdom
The Believing Brain
Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well
Resisting the Understandable Appeal of CAM
OP-ED Resisting the
Giving the Devil His Due
Giving the Devil his Due
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 …
Racial dynamics underlying crime commission, emotionality, and last statements among executed offenders in Texas
We consider here whether African-Americans executed on death row in Texas are consequently (a) more likely to have committed economically-motivated secondary crimes during the commission of homicide/attempted homicide, and whether these inmates were (b) less likely to express being sorry in their final statements before execution. Our study revealed support for the following hypothesized patterns: Caucasian offenders used a greater number of sorr…
Giving the Devil his Due
Tracking Science
In response to recent discussion about terminology, we propose "tracking science" as a term that is more inclusive than citizen science. Our suggestion is set against a post-colonial political background and large-scale migrations, in which "citizen" is becoming an increasingly contentious term. As a diverse group of authors from several continents, our priority is to deliberate a term that is all-inclusive, so that it could be adopted by everyon…
Conspiracy
Conspiracy
The New Nones
While political scientists have investigated political non-affiliation and religious scholars have investigated religious non-affiliation, no work has yet examined the correlates of those identifying as both religiously and politically non-affiliated. Across two separate studies, we investigate the personality, social network, and cultural engagement correlates of political and religious non-affiliates. Some statistically significant effects foun…
Truth
A clear-eyed look at thinking straight in a world crowded with noise, bias, and misinformation."Fake news." "Alternative facts." "Post-truth." Misinformation is everywhere, sparking public confusion and polarization. In Truth, best-selling author Michael Shermer cuts through the noise to argue that not only does truth still matter—but also that it's essential to our individual and collective flourishing. This sharp-sighted and accessible book pro…
Loneliness and political intolerance
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