It’s called The Scope Of Skepticism, which might make me cranky — I’ve been unimpressed with a lot of the timid boundary-setting of the skeptical movement — but it’s taken from Kylie’s podcast, and she’s a good interviewer. I expect there’s some argument with the ideas, which is always good.
Jul 04 2012
Kylie Sturgess has a new book
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rorschach
4 July 2012 at 9:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Also available in this series :
Russell Blackford – The scope of Freethought
Jean Kazez – The scope of Atheism
Paula S Kirby – The scope of Feminism
elronxenu
4 July 2012 at 11:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I didn’t see Barbara Drescher in the contributors list, which surprised me. I think this article would fit right into the book’s title.
lewin
5 July 2012 at 7:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
maybe we’ll be lucky and it’s like a gun scope. Look out, the aim of skepticism is coming your way. And it’s dangerous.
Kylie Sturgess
25 August 2012 at 4:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
elronxenu – The reason why Barbara Drescher isn’t included is because the last time I interviewed her was at Dragon*Con 2009 and it was very brief. I wanted to include a great many interviews, but one of the factors in choosing included chapter-length interviews. It was very difficult narrowing them down to the twenty or so and Barbara Drescher’s was just one of many that didn’t make the cut (I have about 200+ interviews conducted now, from two different popular podcasts).
Even some (not all!) of what I consider my best interviews aren’t included; they feature on the CSICOP website and in magazines like the Skeptical Inquirer. The latest Skeptical Inquirer features the one I did with Marian Call, and it isn’t in the book, for example.
Here’s the full list (not including essays):
Tim Minchin
Joey Haban
Caroline Watt
Daniel Loxton
Jennifer Ouellette
On “Gorillas In Our Midst” – Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.
Bruce M. Hood
Desiree Schell
Ben Radford
Stephen Fry
Petra Boynton
Pamela Gay
Sharon Hill
Julian Morrow
Viv “TigTog” Smythe
Lyz Liddell
Hayley Stevens
Scott Sigler
Indre Viskontas
If you’d like a free audio-version of the book? Subscribe to my Token Skeptic podcast.