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Institute for Advancing American Values presents: An evening with Ilana Redstone Nov. 12

Professor Ilana Redstone
(Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

The sociologist Ilana Redstone will speak at 7 p.m. on Nov, 12 in the Student Union Building's Hatch Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. Redstone is the author of "The Certainty Trap," which argues that when a person is in the 'certainty trap', they view people who disagree with them as hateful, ignorant, or just plain stupid. But the things humans care about the most are, far more often than not, morally and ethically complex. If the problems that divide us are inherently complicated, then a sense that the answers are obvious - and that anyone who disagrees must be deficient in some way, is misplaced. It's an oversimplification that both leads to and reflects faulty thinking, the author says.

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