Michael Shermer: 15 books
The Believing Brain
From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.
In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known...
The Borderlands of Science
Where Sense Meets Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science...
In Darwin's Shadow
The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin...
The Mind of the Market
Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about money
How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial...
The Science of Good and Evil
Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore)
A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the...
Science Friction
Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time
A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into...
How We Believe
Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics
Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular...
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A scientific exploration into humanity’s obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer
In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific...
Why Darwin Matters
The Case Against Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda
Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism...
Skeptic
Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American
For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark...
Arguing Science
A Dialogue on the Future of Science and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to free itself from materialist dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science, properly conceived, is a materialistic enterprise; for science to look beyond...
Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Revised and Expanded Edition.
In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print,...
The Moral Arc
How Science Makes Us Better People
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral
From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously...
by Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #2: January 2019
Featuring Ideas by:
Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles
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