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Empires of belief : why we need more scepticism and doubt in the Twenty-First Century / Stuart Sim.

Author/creator Sim, Stuart
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
Descriptionvi, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction: Empires of belief, campaigns for scepticism -- Scepticism: a brief philosophical history -- Enlightenment scepticism: a campaign against unnecessary hypotheses -- Super-scepticism: the postmodern world -- Science and technology as belief systems -- Towards a sceptical politics -- Reasonable doubt? -- Conclusion: The sceptic fights back.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008425760
ISBN0748623264 (hard)
ISBN9780748623266 (hard)

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