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  • Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
     OP - December 22, 2008, 09:23 AM
    Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry, including The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology; Doubt: A History; The Happiness Myth, and her book of poetry, Funny, which Publisher?s Weekly called one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.

    In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Hecht talks about the relationship of her book Doubt: A History to the books of the New Atheists, if media reception of the New Atheists was ?gendered,? and in what sense her book is ?less evangelical? than theirs. She explains what she means by the kind of doubt she believes in, how it is broader and deeper than mere disbelief, and the ways in which doubt can feed belief. She explores the implications of doubt for scientific inquiry, and how doubt should be applied to the questions and the certitude that some scientists and skeptics express. She talks about the importance of art, poetry and psychoanalysis for doubting, and how such forms of introspection and expression increase the benefits of doubt. And she reveals some her favorite doubters in history, and what she learns from them.

    http://www.pointofinquiry.org/jennifer_michael_hecht_doubt/

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  • Re: Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
     Reply #1 - December 22, 2008, 09:31 AM
    Sounds interesting. I'll check it out later.

    One minor point is that most scientists aren't as full of certainty as is sometimes supposed. They are usually very well aware of the limits to what we know. Like the saying goes theories cannot be proven, only disproven.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
     Reply #2 - December 23, 2008, 01:13 AM
    I owns it. Good book. Has a section on muslim doubters, namely: Ar-Razi, Muhammad al-Warraq (from whom Ibn Warraq takes his name), and Ar-Rawandi.
    I chose to get circumcised at 17, don't tell me I never believed.
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