Empires of belief : why we need more scepticism and doubt in the twenty-first century /

"Challenges all forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint." Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious fundamentalism seems to suggest so. For the sceptically minded, this is a deeply worrying trend, no...

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Tác giả chính: Sim, Stuart
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2006.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b531
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  • COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Empires of Belief, Campaigns for Scepticism; 1 Scepticism: A Brief Philosophical History; 2 Enlightenment Scepticism: A Campaign Against Unnecessary Hypotheses; 3 Super-Scepticism: The Postmodern World; 4 Science and Technology as Belief Systems; 5 Towards a Sceptical Politics; 6 Reasonable Doubt?; Conclusion: The Sceptic Fights Back; Notes; Bibliography; Index.