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Ive been writing about skepticism (meaning, taking a skeptical stance on pseudo-science, pseudo-philosophy, pseudo-politics, and a few other pseudos) since as far back as 1997, when I began organizing Darwin Day events at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. From time to time, over the intervening 16 or so years, I found myself turning my gadfly-sh keyboard toward other skeptics, usually famous ones. The reason is that it seems to me that a community such as the skeptic / atheist / humanist (S/A/H, for short) one that prides itself in its intellectualism and openness to reason and evidence, ought to critically examine its own tenets and positions, especially when espoused by prominent members of said community. Indeed, one of the gratifying things about being a skeptic is precisely that, by and large, we dont act like a church. We recoil from dogmas, and we dont ostracize dissenting members of our community, immediately rushing to build a new church down the street. Or do we? Well, okay, the recent history of the S/A/H community actually does sometimes eerily recall religious schisms and doctrinal disputes. Still, at least we dont burn people at the stakes, or launch fatwas against them! The gentle reader will notice that several of the essays included in the Skeptics Skeptic collection are, ahem, quite ironic, even sarcastic at times, certainly more so than the typical Rationally Speaking post. There are reasons for that. To begin with, the people targeted here are Big Boys who can definitely take the heat (many are academics, and academics are selected for having a thick skin). Moreover, rest assured that they can (and have, in several cases!) fight back with equal or larger force. But the most important explanation for my above-average forcefulness here is that I take public intellectualism seriously, and these people are somewhat major public intellectuals. They influence countless others, and they therefore bear the responsibility of writing rigorously as well as clearly. When they dont (in my opinion, of course) I call them out. It should go without saying, but Ill say it any way: contra persistent insinuations to the contrary (by, say, The Discovery Institute, the inane think tank that promotes Intelligent Design creationism), these and other writings by yours truly do not signal the beginning of a move away from my philosophical naturalism, support for science, or defense of reason. They are simply cases in which I deploy precisely those tools to engage the best minds of the S/A/H, so that we as a broader movement can keep Carl Sagans famous candle in the dark alit against the always numerous and always powerful forces of obscurantism and repression.
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His scholarly interests are in the philosophy of science and the nature of pseudoscience. He studies and practices modern Stoicism.
Pigliucci is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He has written for Skeptical Inquirer, Philosophy Now, and The Philosophers’ Magazine, among others. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other major outlets.
He publishes essays on Stoicism and other practical philosophies at patreon.com/PlatoFootnotes and produces the almost daily Stoic Meditations podcast at https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations
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ترجمه ماشینی :
از سال 1997، زمانی که شروع به سازماندهی رویدادهای روز داروین در دانشگاه تنسی کردم، در مورد شکاکیت (به معنای اتخاذ موضعی شکاک در مورد شبه علم، شبه فلسفه، شبه سیاست، و چند شبه شبه دیگر) می نویسم. در ناکسویل گاه به گاه، در طول 16 سال یا بیشتر، متوجه شدم که صفحه کلید gadfly-sh خود را به سمت افراد بدبین، معمولاً مشهور، می چرخانم. دلیل آن این است که به نظر من جامعه ای مانند شکاک / ملحد / اومانیست (به اختصار S/A/H) که به روشنفکر بودن و گشودگی خود به دلیل و شواهد افتخار می کند، باید اصول خود را به طور انتقادی بررسی کند. و مناصب، به ویژه هنگامی که توسط اعضای برجسته جامعه مورد حمایت حمایت می شود. در واقع، یکی از چیزهای خوشحال کننده در مورد شکاک بودن دقیقاً این است که، به طور کلی، ما مانند یک کلیسا عمل نمی کنیم. ما از تعصبات عقب نشینی م
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