Isbn: 9781633887749 - to light the flame of reason: clear thinking for the twenty-first century (6 Ergebnisse)

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The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Foreword -- Christer Sturmark -- Prelude: Concerning Yesterday's World and Today's World. -- A Global Psychosis. -- Fatal Superstition -- . -- Swedish Extremism and Superstition -- What We Need Is a New Age of Enlightenment. -- PART I -- THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY -- CHAPTER ONE To Meet the World with an Open Mind: -- Concerning the Tools and Compass Needed in the Quest -- for Knowledge. -- My Own Bumpy Trip. -- To Have an Open Mind. -- Explanations and Ockham's Razor -- Traps in Thinking. -- Rationality and Wisdom. -- Having Ideas and Forming a Philosophy of Life. -- My Point of View -- Secular Humanism -- Interlude: On Spirituality and Flow. -- CHAPTER TWO I Believe That I Know: Concerning Reality, -- Knowledge, and Truth -- What Is Knowledge? -- Is What Seems Real Really Real? -- Matters of Fact and Matters of Taste -- What Is Truth? -- Truth as Absolute, Truth as Relative -- Social Constructions -- Postmodernism and Education -- Relativism and Politics -- Interlude: On Three Great Mysteries. -- CHAPTER THREE Beliefs Based on Good Reasons: -- Concerning the Grounds That Underlie One's Convictions -- "But What Do You Believe in, Then?". -- Is Belief in Science a Kind of Faith? -- Intellectual Honesty. -- "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence". -- Unmasking What Is Implausible. -- Interlude: On Exploring Rival Moves in Chess and Rival Moves in the Game of Life -- CHAPTER FOUR What Is Science? Concerning Theories, Experiments, Conclusions, and Science's Essence. -- At the Very Heart of Science -- Experimentation, Rejection, and Revision: The Very Core of What Science Is. -- Deductive Processes of Inference. -- Inductive Processes of Inference. -- Case Study: Louis Pasteur and Spontaneous Generation. -- Falsifiability -- Mathematics and Its Absolute Truths -- Blind Experiments and Placebos -- The Darker Side of Science. -- Are Religion and Science Mutually Compatible? -- Interlude: On the Usefulness of Science. -- CHAPTER FIVE Ghosts in the Head: Concerning Our Wonderful but Easily Fooled Brains. -- Our Brains Pull the Wool over Our Eyes Social Thinking and Abstract Thinking -- Moral Thinking. -- Was the Human Brain Designed to Be Religious? -- Our Very Human Theory of Mind -- Magical Thinking. -- Interlude: On Heaven and Paradise. -- CHAPTER SIX A Natural World: Concerning Naturalism, -- Agnosticism, and Atheism. -- Naturalism and Materialism. -- Atheists as Provocateurs -- Atheism in American Life -- Atheists as Beings with No Morality. -- Agnostic or Atheist? -- Many Agnostics Are Actually Atheists -- What Does an Atheist Actually Believe? -- Thirteen Prejudices about Atheism. -- Atheism's Rebirth and Disappearance -- . -- Interlude: On Superstition and Hocus-Pocus. -- CHAPTER SEVEN Being Good without Needing God: -- Concerning Goodness, Evil, and Morality -- The Problem of Evil. -- Omnipotent-Yes or No? -- The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways -- Some Kinds of Evil Aren't Real, despite Appearances -- Is God Actually Good? -- Morality Has No Need for a God. -- The Fight between Zeus and Shiva. -- Eve Is Always Right -- A Secular View of Evil and Morality -- "The Problem Is Merely That Humans Misinterpret Religion" -- The Natural Roots of Morality -- Empathy and Identification. -- Interlude: On Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility -- CHAPTER EIGHT New Age Beliefs and the Crisis of Reason: -- Concerning People's Beliefs in Strange Ideas. -- Unreasonable Beliefs -- Positive Thinking and Pseudoscience -- Nikken as a Case Study -- Homeopathy. -- Exploiting the Cachet of Antiquity and That of Science. -- Quantum Physics and the New Age. -- Category Errors and the Ladder of Sciences -- A Case Study: Astrology -- Second Case Study: The Myers-Briggs Test. -- Synchronicity -- Case Study: Hug and Bug. -- New Age Prejudices. -- Interlude: On the Mystic Land of Shangri-La -- PART II -- THE PATHWAY TO A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT -- CHAPTER NINE When Religion Runs off the Rails: -- Concerning Fanaticism, Extremism, and Christian-Style Talibanism -- Does God Hate Women? -- The Catholic Church's Opposition to Abortion -- Sexual Apartheid in Judaism -- Sharia and the Cairo Declaration -- Religion and Tradition: A Study in the Oppression of Women. -- Blasphemy, Apostasy, and Freedom of Speech. -- ISIS -- Nordic Terror -- Christian Extremism -- The Joshua Generation -- Waiting for the Second Coming of Christ -- Christian Taliban -- Jesus Shall Crush the Nonbelievers. -- Interlude: On Human Suffering and Medical Practice. -- CHAPTER TEN The Battle over Our Origins: -- Concerning Evolution, Creationism, and Anti-science -- Darwin's Legacy -- Monkey Trial, 1925 -- Evolution Scores a Couple of Victories -- Intelligent Design -- Intelligent Design in American Schools. -- Creationism in Sweden -- Interlude: On the Normal and the Abnormal -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The History of Ideas: Concerning the -- Roots of Secular Enlightenment, -- Reason, Compassion, and Various "Golden Rules" -- The Philosophy of Ancient Times. -- Three Intellectual Giants. -- Humanity at the Focal Point -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance. -- Rationalists and Empiricists -- The Enlightenment. -- Secular Philosophy, Morality, and Politics. -- The Enlightenment as a Movement for Freedom. -- The Nineteenth Century -- Freethinkers and Atheists -- Interlude: On Free Will. -- CHAPTER TWELVE Secular Voices in Our Day: -- Concerning Awe, Politics, and Religion -- The First Humanist Society in the United States -- The Myth of Albert Einstein's Religiousness. -- Secular Voices Today. -- Interlude: On Teleportation and the Fear of Death. -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Enlightenment: Concerning Freedoms, Rights, and Respect. -- Universal Rights and Human Liberation -- Identity as a Trap. -- Islam and the Criticism of Religion. -- Essentialism and Viewpoints. …