Bad beliefs : why they happen to good people / / Neil Levy [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Levy Neil <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Disciplina: 121.3
• Soggetto topico: Rationalism; Belief and doubt
• Note generali: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Home page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: rational social animals go wild -- 1. What should we believe about belief? -- 2. Culturing belief -- 3. How our minds are made up -- 4. Dare to think? -- 5. Epistemic pollution -- 6. Nudging well -- Concluding thoughts: rational animals after all.
• Sommario/riassunto: Bad beliefs - beliefs that blatantly conflict with easily available evidence - are common. Large minorities of people hold that vaccines are dangerous or accept bizarre conspiracy theories, for instance. The prevalence of bad beliefs may be politically and socially important, for instance blocking effective action on climate change. Explaining why people accept bad beliefs and what can be done to make them more responsive to evidence is therefore an important project. A common view is that bad beliefs are largely explained by widespread irrationality. This book argues that ordinary people are rational agents, and their beliefs are the result of their rational response to the evidence they're presented with.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bad Beliefs
• ISBN: 0-19-264851-9; 0-19-191614-5; 0-19-264850-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910522596103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.