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Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted fo...

Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted fo...

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This book presents a critical account of how universities censor their teaching, how student activism tends to censor the opposing side and how academics censor themselves. Renowned author James Flynn presents a compelling counterargument to those who favour banning free speech.

IQ gains are persisting into the twenty-first century, particularly in the developing world: the 'Flynn effect' marches on! This exciting new book by James R. Flynn aims to make sense of the continued rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society.

An expanded paperback edition of James R. FlynnâEUR(TM)s thought-provoking examination of dramatic increases in IQ gains over the twentieth century. Includes new essays on the contrast between writing cognitive history with the science of measuring intelligence, the theory of intelligence and Flynn's reservations about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

Beyond Patriotism" argues that some millions of Americans have become "post-national" people who put the good of humanity ahead of patriotism or national honor. It discusses the decisions that led them from the Vietnamese War to the attempt to put Pol Pot back into power to the sanctions against Iraq.

Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century and the term was coined to recognize Professor Flynn's central role in measuring and analyzing these gains. For over twenty years, psychologists have struggled to understand the implications of IQ gains. Do they mean that each g...

IQ gains are persisting into the twenty-first century, particularly in the developing world: the 'Flynn effect' marches on! This exciting new book by James R. Flynn aims to make sense of the continued rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society.

Each day our minds experience a deluge of conversation, lectures, newspapers, TV, the Internet, and more. But what should we really be paying attention to? James R. Flynn, world-renowned intelligence researcher and discoverer of the Flynn Effect (the phenomenon of rising global IQs over time), poses the most challenging question of all: Who is to be the master of all this information - you or the modern world? It is you, he claims, who must be...

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Dal nucleare agli ogm, dalle staminali alla legge elettorale, dai test di ingresso all'università alle leggi sull'immigrazione o sulle droghe, in Italia si dibatte e si legifera in chiave quasi solo ideologica. Eppure la storia e i modi in cui si decide in altri paesi dimostrano la possibilità di scelte migliori nell'interesse delle persone e della società usando strumenti più razionali e critici. In questo libro il filosofo, psicologo, sociol...

James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities.

Professor Flynn, author of "What Is Intelligence?, " offers a controversial alternative to The Bell Curve, arguing that IQ gaps between black and white Americans are environmental not genetic.

One of the principal moral and psychological problems of our time is whether humane ideals can be defended. Loss of faith in the objectivity of ethics has encouraged a sense of hopelessness. The notion that no ideal is better than any other, that a humane commitment has no rational advantage over Nietzsche's contempt for ordinary people, has been accused of leaving our civilization without self-confidence or a purpose. James R. Flynn rejects a...