Robert Todd Carroll

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Robert Todd Carroll (1945-), Ph.D., is an American writer and academic, acting as a philosophy professor and chairman of the Philosophy Department at Sacramento City College. Carroll has authored several books and skeptical essays.

A longtime advocate of atheism, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking, in 1994 he set up the Skeptic's Dictionary online, initially consisting of fewer than fifty articles, mostly on logical fallacies and pseudoscience. The site has now grown to several hundred articles — including many on the paranormal and the supernatural — and attracts over a million visitors per month.[1] Entries from the dictionary have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

[edit] Publications

Becoming a Critical Thinker — A Guide for the New Millennium 2nd ed. ISBN 0-536-85934-5.
The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-27242-6.
The Common-sense Philosophy of Religion of Bishop Edward Stillingfleet 1635-1699 ISBN 90-247-1647-0. (1974 doctoral dissertation, under the direction of Richard Popkin, University of California at San Diego).