The Quicksands of Belief
The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. The claim of this book is that humans need to question everything they think they know.
The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. The claim of this book is that humans need to question everything they think they know.
| Autor: | Winn Boehm, Janet |
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| ISBN: | 9781433126116 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 247 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York |
| Veröffentlicht: | 22.07.2014 |
| Untertitel: | The Need for Skepticism |
| Schlagworte: | Belief Boehm Janet Quicksands Skepticism failure history philosophy skepticism sociology |
Janet B. Winn has a B.A. from Vassar College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded a fellowship for graduate work. She earned an M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, advanced credits in sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a Ph.D. in philosophy of social science from the State University of New York in Albany. She has taught both philosophy and sociology in the New York State university system. She is the author of The Open Mind and Sociology (Lang, 1988).