Giving The Devil His Due
Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
by Michael Shermer
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Pub Date Apr 30 2020 | Archive Date Apr 24 2020
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Description
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 inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the devil his due.
Michael Shermer is Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, USA, the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the host of the Science Salon podcast, and for eighteen years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of a number of New York Times bestselling books including: Heavens on Earth, The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, and Why People Believe Weird Things. His two TED talks, viewed over nine million times, were voted into the top 100 out of more than 2,000 TED talks. His new book is Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. Follow @michaelshermer.
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Advance Praise
“This is a rather difficult book for me to blurb, given that an entire chapter is devoted to criticizing my claims about pragmatic truth vis-à-vis scientific truth. However, Dr. Michael Shermer is a very clear thinker, and the kind of skeptic that is always necessary to ensure that public thought, scientific and otherwise, maintains a certain clarity. He’s a passionate advocate of free speech, for this and many other reasons – to the point of entitling his new book Giving the Devil His Due, which is devoted to many worthwhile topics, but to free speech above all. Despite our disagreements, this is a necessary book for our times. Read it. And thank God and the powers that be that you have the right to do so.” - Jordan B. Peterson
“Michael Shermer is a fearless defender of free speech, open inquiry, and freedom of thought and conscience, including – and especially – for those with whom he disagrees. Giving the Devil His Due is one of the strongest bulwarks against the tyranny of censorship that I have read.” - Nadine Strossen
“... a detailed roadmap for thinking well and clearly about interesting and challenging ideas. This vivid, erudite, broad, and deep collection of essays is marvelously written – so much so that, as you finish one essay, you cannot resist starting the next. And the range – from ancient civilizations to the colonization of Mars, from free speech on campus to gun control in cities – is as astonishing as it is engaging.” - Nicholas Christakis
“As always, Michael Shermer is hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and brilliant. The fascinating essays in this wide-ranging book will make you think – and then rethink.” - Amy Chua
“Michael Shermer is the voice of reason, and this is a book of his best essays – the ones we most need to read to understand the madness of our time and to imagine a more reasonable future. The range of questions Shermer addresses and the breadth of his knowledge make this book a delight to read.” - Jonathan Haidt
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781108489782 |
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