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Index
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
Chapter 1 Giving the Devil His Due
Preamble
Chapter 2 Banning Evil
Preamble
Chapter 3 Free Speech Even If It Hurts
Preamble
PostScript on David Irving and the Eichmann Papers
Chapter 4 Free to Inquire
Preamble
Why People Do Not Accept Evolution
Equal Time and Free Speech
Chapter 5 Ben Stein’s Blunder
Preamble
At the Crossroads of Conspiracy
Who Speaks for Science?
From Haeckel to Hitler
Questioning Darwinism
Chapter 6 What Went Wrong?
Preamble
Trigger Warnings
Safe Spaces
Microaggressions
Speaker Disinvitations
Proximate Causes
An Ultimate Cause
Solutions
Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
Chapter 7 E Pluribus Unum for All Faiths and for None
Preamble
Chapter 8 Atheism and Liberty
Preamble
Chapter 9 The Curious Case of Scientology
Preamble
Scientology, Anonymous
Origin Myths of Religions and Cults
Chapter 10 Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
Preamble
Alvy’s Error and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 11 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Preamble
Explanations for Nothing
Nothing Is Inconceivable.
Nothing Is Something.
Nothing Would Include God’s Nonexistence.
God Did It Ex Nihilo.
Natural v. Supernatural Explanations of Something.
Nothing Is Unstable, Something Is Stable.
Explanations for Our Universe
Inconstant Constants.
Grand Unified Theory.
Boom-and-Bust Cycles.
Darwinian Universes.
Multiple Creations Cosmology.
Many-Worlds Multiverse.
Brane and String Universes.
Quantum Foam Universe Creations.
M-Theory Grand Design, or Auto-Ex-Nihilo.
A Sense of Awe out of Nothing
Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
Chapter 12 Another Dream Deferred
Preamble
Chapter 13 Healing the Bonds of Affection
Preamble
Chapter 14 Governing Mars
Preamble
Chapter 15 The Sandy Hook Effect
Preamble
Murder v. Mass Murder
Who Are These Mass Murderers, Anyway?
The Prediction and Prevention Problem
Is There Nothing We Can Do?
Whose Rights?
Chapter 16 On Guns and Tyranny
Preamble
Chapter 17 Debating Guns
Preamble
Gun Violence v. Terrorism Violence
What Conservatives and Liberals Really Differ On about Guns (and Everything Else)
Chapter 18 Another Fatal Conceit
Preamble
The Collective Action Problem
The Hidden Costs of Market Failures and Moral Hazards
Either Way, We’re Paying Taxes
Evonomics: The Connection Between Adam Smith and Charles Darwin
Corporations as Species
Peacocks and Bull Elk Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You
Positional Ranking, Relative Happiness, and Individual Liberty
Other Hidden Costs: What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen in Government Actions
Fatal Conceit Redux
Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
Chapter 19 Scientific Naturalism
Preamble
From Scientific Naturalism to Enlightenment Humanism
Scientific Naturalism, Enlightenment Humanism, and the Is-Ought Fallacy
Chapter 20 Mr. Hume: Tear. Down. This. Wall.
Preamble
Chapter 21 Kardashev’s Types and Sparks’ Law
Preamble
Chapter 22 How Lives Turn Out
Preamble
Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
Chapter 23 Transcendent Man
Preamble
Chapter 24 The Real Hitch
Preamble
My Dinner (and Drinks) with Christopher
Chapter 25 The Skeptic’s Chaplain
Preamble
Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
Preamble
The Paladin Archetype
Jordan Peterson, Bill C-16, and Freedom of Speech
The Archetypal Theory of Truth
The Architecture of Archetypes
Entropy and Extropy, Chaos and Order
Chapter 27 Romancing the Past
Preamble
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1 Giving the Devil His Due
Chapter 2 Banning Evil
Chapter 4 Free to Inquire
Chapter 6 What Went Wrong? Campus Unrest, Viewpoint Diversity, and Freedom of Speech
Chapter 9 The Curious Case of Scientology
Chapter 11 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Chapter 13 Healing the Bonds of Affection
Chapter 14 Governing Mars
Chapter 15 The Sandy Hook Effect
Chapter 18 Another Fatal Conceit
Chapter 19 Scientific Naturalism
Chapter 20 Mr. Hume: Break. Down. This. Wall
Chapter 22 How Lives Turn Out
Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
Index
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