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021301
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Rhinebeck, Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2016.
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vii, 169pGrey spine
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Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas and its future. Sheldrake argues that science needs to be free of materialistic dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science is a materialistic enterprise. Issues discussed include materialism and its role in science, whether belief in God is compatible with a scientific perspective and parapsychology.
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9781939681577 Pb.
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021299
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Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000.
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xviii, 334pBlack spine
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Apart from disproving Holocaust denials, the authors lay a framework for examining how we know that any historical event actually happened.
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9780520260986 Pb.
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| I01965 | 940.5318/SHE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019486
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New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
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541pBlack spine
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From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In this provocative and compelling book, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.
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9780805096910 Hb.
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021302
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New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
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xii, 350pRed spine
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Psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence.
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9780805077698 Pb.
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021303
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New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
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xiv, 283pRed spine
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Brings together 75 of the columns of Michael Shermer, taking on a wide range of subjects like psychology, human nature to religion and pseudoscience. Dense with facts, convincing arguments and curious statistics, this is an ingenious collection of light entertainment for readers who believe that explaining stuff is a good idea.
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9781627791380 Hb.
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021300
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New York, MJF Books, 1997.
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xxvi, 306pPurple spine
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Why do smart people believe weird things?Why do so many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, extra-terrestrial abduction and ghosts? What is behind the rise of 'scientific creationism' and Holocaust denial? In an age of supposed scientific enlightenment why do we appear more impressionable than ever?Scientific historian, and director of the Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer debunks these extraordinary claims in a no-holds-barred assault on the popular superstitions and confused prejudices of our time, Exploring the very human areas.
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9781567313598 Hb.
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