<i>How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason</i>—Lee McIntyre (Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2021, 264 pp.)
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چکیده
In Book I of Plato’s Republic, Socrates narrates preparing to go home from a festival when he is playfully “arrested” by an acquaintance and told that because outnumbered has no choice but stay. “Why, there not left,” said I, “the alternative our persuading you ought let us go?” “But could persuade us,” he, “if we refused listen?” Here, at the beginning Western philosophical tradition, encounter perennial problem: how deal with those who refuse even listen reason, alone allow themselves be moved it. How Talk Science Denier, Lee McIntyre, research fellow Center for Philosophy History Boston University, addresses one manifestation this science denial.
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1937-416X', '0278-0097']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mts.2023.3245689