| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Challenges various forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint. Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? This book outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. |
| Contents |
COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Empires of Belief, Campaigns for Scepticism; 1 Scepticism: A Brief Philosophical History; 2 Enlightenment Scepticism: A Campaign Against Unnecessary Hypotheses; 3 Super-Scepticism: The Postmodern World; 4 Science and Technology as Belief Systems; 5 Towards a Sceptical Politics; 6 Reasonable Doubt?; Conclusion: The Sceptic Fights Back; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Skepticism -- 21st century.
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Skepticism. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Belief and doubt -- 21st century.
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Belief and doubt. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sim, Stuart Empires of Belief: Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century Oxford : Edinburgh University Press,c2006 9780748623266 |
| ISBN |
0748626948 (electronic book) |
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9780748626946 (electronic book) |
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1280501634 |
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9781280501630 |
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0748623264 |
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9780748623266 |
| Standard No. |
9780748626946 |
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