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Robert Todd Carroll (May 18, 1945 – August 25, 2016) was an American author, philosopher and academic, best known for The Skeptic's Dictionary. He described himself as a naturalist, an atheist, a materialist, a metaphysical libertarian, and a positivist. In 2010 he was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
After a two-year battle against pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer, Robert Todd Carroll passed away on August 25th, 2016 at the age of 71. Friend and colleague Susan Gerbic, co-founder of the Monterey County Skeptics, has written about Bob’s passing for the Skeptical Inquirer in “Skeptical Community Mourns the Loss of Robert Todd Carroll.”
Mar 22, 2016 · Books by Robert Todd Carroll. The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and what you can do about them (2013) is available as an e-book from Amazon. Amazon provides a significant "look inside." The paperback edition is 348 pages and is available from Lulu.
That man is Robert Todd Carroll. Carroll is a philosopher and a skeptic, whose Skeptic’s Dictionary and Guide to the New Millennium is testimony to his devotion to exposing woolly thinking, pseudo-science and downright fraud.
Apr 9, 2024 · Robert Todd Carroll (born 1945 – August 25, 2016) was an American writer and academic. He was the Philosophy Department chairman at Sacramento City College, and the author of several books, skeptical essays, and the online Skeptic's Dictionary .
Dec 9, 2010 · The Skeptic's Dictionary features definitions, arguments, and essays on hundreds of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions. It also features dozens of entries on logical fallacies, cognitive biases, perception, science, and philosophy. Also posted are over 20 years of reader comments.
The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic.com and in a printed book. [1] [2] The skepdic.com site was launched in 1994 and the book was published in 2003 with nearly 400 entries.
