Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People
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Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. Cover Title Pages.pdf Copyright Contents Acknowledgments.pdf Preface-Rational Social Animals Go Wild.pdf 1.What Should We Believe About Belief.pdf 2.Culturing Belief.pdf 3.How Our Minds Are Made Up.pdf 4.Dare to Think.pdf 5.Epistemic Pollution.pdf 6.Nudging Well.pdf Concluding Thoughts.pdf References.pdf Index.pdf
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