Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Law, Stephen
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Law, Stephen

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap....
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Author: Stephen Law
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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Law, Stephen

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

$45.90
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Law, Stephen

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

$45.90
Author: Stephen Law
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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. This witty, insightful critique will help immunize readers against the wiles of cultists, religious and political zealots, conspiracy theorists, promoters of flaky alternative medicines, and others by clearly setting out the tricks of the trade by which such insidious belief systems are created and maintained.

Author: Stephen Law
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.06w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781616144111


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 5

About the Author
Stephen Law (Oxford, England) 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). He is the author of numerous books for adults as well as children, including The Greatest Philosophers, Companion Guide to Philosophy, The War for Children's Minds, and Really, Really Big Questions, among other works.
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