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. The Enlightenment
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. The Phenomenology of Mind
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1807
   The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.

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