Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

By J. Hobson. 2019

453 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Education

1. Timo Gnambs
2. Markus Appel

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yoshua Bengio
2. Andrea Saltelli
3. Timo Gnambs
4. Markus Appel
5. Caroline Marker

In Philosophy

1. Jascha Narain Sohl-Dickstein
2. Yoshua Bengio
3. Markus Appel

Citations in the corpus

• Your GAN is Secretly an Energy-based Model and You Should use Discriminator Driven Latent Sampling (2020, background): “However, we believe that improving scientific understanding tends also to improve the human condition [62] – so in the absence of a reason to expect specific harm, we believe that in expectation our work will have a positive impact on the world.”
• Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “Others have argued for a more positive view on social media use (e.g., Pinker, 2018).”
• Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation (2020, background): “Bold intellectual manoeuvres such as those of Steven Pinker (2018), that deluge the reader with a profusion of numbers and graphs to argue that humankind has never had it so good, that inequality is non-existent or irrelevant, and that racism is receding, may also be classi fi ed as non-innocent…”