YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Michael Shermer, founder and editor of Skeptic magazine and executive director of the Skeptics Society, will speak at Youngstown State University April 5. His presentation, part of the Shipka Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
The presentation is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center.
Shermer earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pepperdine University, a master’s degree in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He was a college professor for 20 years, teaching psychology, evolution, and the history of science at Occidental College, California State University Los Angeles and Glendale College.
His latest book, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, examines how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed and extinguished. He also is the author of The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics; Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design; Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown; The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share, Care, and Follow the Golden Rule; In Darwin’s Shadow; The Borderlands of Science; Denying History; How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God; and Why People Believe Weird Things.
Shermer is a blogger, a regular lecturer on campuses across the nation, and a guest on a variety of TV shows.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.