1. The Anatomy of Judgment
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
2. An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1998
   Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
3. Chomsky on Post-Modernism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1995
   What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
4. Connexions Library: Science Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
5. The Enlightenment
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century.
6. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1997
   Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
7. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   Describes attacks on science, and on concepts of truth and rationality, in areas of the humanities.
8. Malik, Kenan
   Resource Type: Website
   Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
9. A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
    Science and its enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
11. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
12. Rationality/Science
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
13. Science and its enemies
    Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.

Experts on Rational Inquiry in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer