Andy Norman
Andy Norman, Ph.D. is a public philosopher and award-winning author who directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is focused on developing the conceptual foundations of cognitive immunology, an emerging science dedicated to understanding mental immunity.
Norman's work explores how demagogues manipulate cognition and how ideologies corrupt moral reasoning.
Through his research and writing, he identifies various mental immune disorders and proposes frameworks—described as "mind vaccines"—designed to protect individuals and future generations against the spread of harmful, irrational ideas he characterizes as viral nonsense.
