Empires of belief [[electronic resource] ] : why we need more scepticism and doubt in the twenty-first century / / Stuart Sim
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Belief and doubt |
| Skepticism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Empires of belief |
| ISBN: | 1-280-50163-4 |
| 9786610501632 | |
| 0-7486-2694-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784462903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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