1. An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
2. Chomsky on Post-Modernism
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
3. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
4. 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.
5. The Phenomenology of Mind
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1807
   The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
6. The Social Misconstruction of Reality
   Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Analyzes erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absense of evidentiary support, and examines why this happened.

Experts on Rational Inquiry in the Sources Directory

1. Radical Digressions