Belief: How Our Minds Work (and How They Don't) - Couverture souple

Carroll, Gil

 
9781736629307: Belief: How Our Minds Work (and How They Don't)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1736629301 ISBN 13 : 9781736629307
Editeur : Good Reasons Press, 2021

Synopsis

Do you know why you believe what you believe?

In order to make sense of the world, human beings search for patterns and make assumptions.

But our need to make sense of things does not guarantee that we will make reasonable sense, or that our beliefs will be truthful.

Do we develop our religious beliefs and our political beliefs using the same processes? Should we?

How do we know whether one of our beliefs is wrong?

In a conversational style, this book discusses how we come to belief today, and how our minds can actually get in the way of our search for truth by leading us into various cognitive biases and logical fallacies.

Using insightful quotations of scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, and Carl Sagan, and philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Bertrand Russell, David Hume and Karl Popper, this book addresses questions like:

  • How do conspiracies work? (with special attention paid to the 2020 Presidential election fraud allegations.)
  • How did the modern process of constructing beliefs develop?
  • How do we scrutinize our beliefs, to make sure that they have a solid foundation?
  • How did skepticism come to play such an important role in discovering truth?
  • How did the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution both play into the modern scientific attitude toward belief?

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À propos de l'auteur

Gil Carroll lives in Centennial, Colorado

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Éditeur
Good Reasons Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1736629301
ISBN 13 
9781736629307
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
179
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