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Free Thinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind

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For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought.

 

‘Excellent and beyond timely.’ A. C. Grayling

 

Scientific advances and new technologies are letting others manipulate our minds more easily than ever before. Now, those tasked with protecting our minds are finally preparing to fight back. As we speak, the United Nations is seeking to pin down a concrete right to free thought and enshrine it in international law alongside life, education and protest.

 

But what is thought? And what makes it free? And how can it best be protected? Freethinking explores what an effective right to freedom of thought would look like, and asks how we might build a culture of free thought, and whether that’s even what we want.

 

In an uncertain and rapidly evolving world, Freethinking shows that there are solutions to the forces buffeting our minds.

Author: McCarthy-Jones Simon
Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780861544578
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2023

Simon McCarthy-Jones is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin. An internationally recognised expert on the experience of hallucinations, he also writes on and researches a range of psychological phenomena and is the author of Spite. He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles published in the New StatesmanNew ScientistNewsweek, the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, the Independent and the Irish Times. His articles on ‘The Conversation’ website have received over a million views to date. His website is: www.simonmccarthyjones.com.

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