Empires of belief :why we need more scepticism and doubt in the Twenty-First Century
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Edinburgh
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Edinburgh University Press
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 195-205( and index
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Stuart Sim
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Introduction: Empires of belief, campaigns for scepticism -- Scepticism: a brief philosophical history -- Enlightenment scepticism: a campaign against unnecessary hypotheses -- Super-scepticism: the postmodern world -- Science and technology as belief systems -- Towards a sceptical politics -- Reasonable doubt? -- Conclusion: The sceptic fights back