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Lee McIntyre
"A manifesto on how to defend truth and reality against Trumpism, post truth, and disinformation campaigns"--
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The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation, Lee McIntyre shows…
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This book is a collection of Lee McIntyre’s philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. Explaining Explanation focuses on the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry…
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In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat…
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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…
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Lee C. McIntyre
The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who…
Pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Lee McIntyre, in this first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, upholds the prospect of the…
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Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn’t settled science, that evolution is only a theory, and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines…
Lee McIntyre (Center for Philosophy and History of Science)
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists’ willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when alternative facts replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
In this audio book, McIntyre makes the argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists’ willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.
This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists…
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Alex Rosenberg,Lee McIntyre
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value this book. The new edition has been thoroughly rewritten based on instructor and student…
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly…
Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new Dark Ages and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and…
Angriffe auf die Wissenschaft sind alltaglich geworden: Die Erforschung des Klimawandels sei keine anstandige Wissenschaft, die Evolution nur eine Theorie , die Wahrheit uber Impfstoffe werde vertuscht.
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Will have appeal to a very diverse range of philosophers, across all traditional branches of philosophy (nearly all major areas are covered). Combines substantive philosophical work on the various philosophical…
This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. Philosophers, chemists, and historians of science ask some fundamental questions about the…
Get a quick, expert overview of the key issues surrounding best practices and current consensus on major depressive disorder (MDD). This concise resource by Drs. Roger S. McIntyre, Carola Rong…
John R. Lutzker,Katelyn M. Guastaferro
Parents require effective training in order to support children with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder. In this book, leading authorities outline the research and evidence which underpins…
This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Gadamer, Hayek, Kolnai, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Polanyi, Ryle, Voegelin, and Wittgenstein. This book provides important…
