Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a weekly Substack column. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist, and Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational. Follow him on Twitter @michaelshermer.
In this talk based on his forthcoming book, Truth, Dr. Shermer will discuss the search for objectivity and what we should believe, and as such there are many different kinds of truths: post-truth truths, how we know what is true, the truths of science and rationality, the truths of religion and spirituality, the truths of mythology and history, the truths of UFOs and ETIs, the truths of morals and values, and the truths about consciousness, free will, God, and existence.
