Quicksands of Belief
The Need for Skepticism
The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don't question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd beliefs swirling around them, too many lack the skepticism needed to avoid global disaster. The claim of this book is that humans need to question everything they think they know. The way the human brain works is impressive and has taken Homo sapiens a long way. However, it is also the source of our failure to doubt. Janet B. Winn explores consciousness first, then the sense o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4541-9560-3
- EAN: 9781454195603
- Produktnummer: 23576545
- Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 496 KB
Über den Autor
Janet B. Winn has a B.A. from Vassar College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded a fellowship for graduate work. She earned an M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, advanced credits in sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a Ph.D. in philosophy of social science from the State University of New York in Albany. She has taught both philosophy and sociology in the New York State university system. She is the author of The Open Mind and Sociology (Lang, 1988).
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