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Autore |
Sim Stuart |
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Titolo |
Empires of belief [[electronic resource] ] : why we need more scepticism and doubt in the twenty-first century / / Stuart Sim |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-50163-4 |
9786610501632 |
0-7486-2694-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Belief and doubt |
Skepticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Challenges various forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint. Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? This book outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. |
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