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Russell Blackford

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Sydney, Australia

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http://russellblackford.com/

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Philosophy, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

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Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.

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The thesis of How We Became Post-Liberal

My 2024 book How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration is about an unfortunate outcome in Western political life. Why and how did we end up with intolerant ideologies on both sides of Western politics? This is particularly apparent in the Anglosphere, but all of the liberal democracies of Europe - France, Spain, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, etc. - have been affect Read more of this blog post »

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	50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists by Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Futures (Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles #1) 3.69 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Great Myths About Atheism by Russell Blackford, Udo Schüklenk, Udo Sch?klenk, Tim Andrés Pabon (Reading) 3.94 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Evil Hour (Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles #2) 3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Times of Trouble (Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles #3) 3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kong Reborn 3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (Think Now) by Russell Blackford, James Garvey (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds by Russell Blackford (Editor), Damien Broderick (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that—feelings—and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.”
― Russell Blackford

tags: common-sense, counterintuitive, doubt, feeling, implausible, science, scientific-facts, transcendence, truth, untutored-mind

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“Today, we each need to guard against various large and small Outrage Machines of the political Left. Otherwise, we can be shunned, harassed, dogpiled, smeared, publicly shamed, devastatingly labelled, falsely accused of wrongdoing, or otherwise hurt and harmed for trivial, dubious, or non-existent transgressions. Our good reputations can be destroyed, our jobs can be threatened or ended, and our careers can be ruined.”
― Russell Blackford, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism

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“Even more dangerous, perhaps, and certainly more difficult to understand or restrain, is a less overt, more insidious kind of tyranny: what Mill called ‘the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling’ ([1859] 1974:”
― Russell Blackford, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism

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