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- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Chapter 1 Giving the Devil His Due
- Chapter 2 Banning Evil
- Chapter 3 Free Speech Even If It Hurts
- Chapter 4 Free to Inquire
- Chapter 5 Ben Stein’s Blunder
- Chapter 6 What Went Wrong?
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 1 - Giving the Devil His Due
Why Freedom of Inquiry and Speech in Science and Politics Is Inviolable
from Part I - The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Chapter 1 Giving the Devil His Due
- Chapter 2 Banning Evil
- Chapter 3 Free Speech Even If It Hurts
- Chapter 4 Free to Inquire
- Chapter 5 Ben Stein’s Blunder
- Chapter 6 What Went Wrong?
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This article was originally published in the November/December 2018 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice as a “Special Issue on the Study of Ethnicity and Race in Criminology and Criminal Justice,” addressing a target article by the psychologist James Flynn on “Academic Freedom and Race,” dealing with the always-controversial topic of racial group differences in IQ scores. The subject of this issue is not the IQ test and whether or not group differences are real (and if they are, what the cause of those differences might be). Instead we were tasked with thinking about to what extent scientists and scholars (and anyone else) should be free to inquire into the matter and, especially, if they should be free to report their findings and opinions, regardless of the political or cultural implications.
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- Giving the Devil his DueReflections of a Scientific Humanist, pp. 19 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020