Bad beliefs : : why they happen to good people /

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Bad beliefs : : why they happen to good people / / Neil Levy.

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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 e...

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Superior document:Oxford scholarship online
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Levy, Neil, 1967-
Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (211 pages)
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  • 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.
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Table of 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.

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