Intellectuals and Society
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Intellectuals and Society
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
|---|---|
| Published | 2009 |
| Pages | 510 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Sowell on the class whose end product is ideas: a surgeon is checked by his patients and an engineer by his bridges, but an intellectual is judged by other intellectuals, so influential ideas can survive long after the evidence has gone against them. The analytic companion to The Vision of the Anointed and A Conflict of Visions. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Pioneer Book, Provo — November 2018 (Books photo album)
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Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Modern Conservatism, where three Sowell titles run together; this is the one about the incentives of the people who produce the ideas the rest of the list is made of. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Expertise — the claim the book interrogates.
- Academia — the peer system that supplies the feedback.
- Ideology — what survives when reality does not check it.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.