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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Stephen Law
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Description for Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black-holes-belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers-by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self-sealing bubbles of belief will most easily trap the gullible or poorly educated, even the most intelligent and educated of us are potentially vulnerable. Some of the world's greatest thinkers have fallen in, never to escape. ... Read more
This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black-holes-belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers-by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self-sealing bubbles of belief will most easily trap the gullible or poorly educated, even the most intelligent and educated of us are potentially vulnerable. Some of the world's greatest thinkers have fallen in, never to escape. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prometheus Books United States
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781616144111
SKU
V9781616144111
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99-4
About Stephen Law
Stephen Law is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London; provost for the Centre for Inquiry UK; and the editor of Think: Philosophy for Everyone, a journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Reviews for Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
""Offers flashes of wit and insight.” —Times Higher Education “I would like to see this book read by college freshmen, and certainly anybody running for public office. The witty, insightful, and often amusing arguments might help to immunize readers against religious and political zealots, conspiracy theorists, and new agers by understanding their stocks in ... Read more