02541nam 2200649Ia 450 991080779360332120240405201323.01-280-50163-497866105016320-7486-2694-89780748626946(CKB)1000000000351138(EBL)264977(OCoLC)70783509(SSID)ssj0000146217(PQKBManifestationID)11158609(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146217(PQKBWorkID)10182639(PQKB)11452463(Au-PeEL)EBL1962175(CaPaEBR)ebr10130492(CaONFJC)MIL50163(OCoLC)903858682(Au-PeEL)EBL264977(DE-B1597)615295(DE-B1597)9780748626946(MiAaPQ)EBC1962175(MiAaPQ)EBC264977(EXLCZ)99100000000035113820060727d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpires of belief why we need more scepticism and doubt in the twenty-first century /Stuart Sim1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20061 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2326-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; 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.Belief and doubtSkepticismBelief and doubt.Skepticism.121.2Sim Stuart144074MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807793603321Empires of belief3973162UNINA