Mental immunity : infectious ideas, mind-parasites, and the search for a better way to think /
COVID denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. American Nazis march openly in the streets. Flat Earth theory is back. Norman shows that these phenomena share a root cause. We live in a time when the so-called "right to your opinion" is th...
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New York :
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Steven Pinker
- Introduction: Tree of life, seeds of death
- Beyond critical thinking : why existing approaches are failing us
- The cognitive immunology toolbox : naming the problem
- The widening gyre : why mental immune systems collapse
- Six immune-disruptive ideas : ... and their antidotes
- Fighting monsters : ... without becoming one yourself
- The ethics of faith : what is responsible belief?
- Thought police need not apply : how (not) to regulate belief
- Reason's fulcrum : the peculiar magic of reasons
- Reason unhinged : how thinking becomes ideological
- Mind upgrade : can we update the brain's operating system?
- Seductive misconceptions : how rationalism lost its way
- The mind vaccine : rethinking reason's requirements
- Conclusion. Propagating enlightenment : how to bend the arc of history.