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Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (Bradford Books) by Lee C. McIntyre

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Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (Bradford Books) Lee C. McIntyre
Language: English
Page: 164
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0262134691, 9781429416153
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"At a time when many social scientists have allowed themselves to be cowed by political and religious ideology, *Dark Ages* reminds us that we have a moral and intellectual obligation to seek the fullest possible understanding of the roots of human behavior. McIntyre has written a beautiful and timely ode to scientific rationality."--Sam Harris, author of *The End of Faith* and *Letter to a Christian Nation*

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 poverty.

" Dark Ages is a compact, urgent, and brutally frank challenge to ideologues left and right to drop their resistance to learning scientific truths about human behavior and apply the scientific method to social science. Given current signs of deterioration in the human race"s ability to assure its own survival, the long-standing hostility to sometimes unwelcome knowledge must end, and Lee McIntyre"s powerful voice is timely and welcome. It will be instructive to see how his bold message is received, especially on university campuses, where the politicization of social science is in full flower and where some questions remain too hot to ask, much less answer." Harvey A. Silverglate , civil liberties lawyer and writer, and coauthor of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America"s Campuses

About the Author

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. He is the author of Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences: Defending a Science of Human Behavior.