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Bad beliefs : why they happen to good people / Neil Levy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Neil, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rationalism.
- Belief and doubt.
- Culture--Psychological aspects.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 188 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Why they happen to good people
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 22, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Levy, Neil Bad Beliefs
- ISBN:
- 0-19-264851-9
- 0-19-191614-5
- 0-19-264850-0
- OCLC:
- 1287134451
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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