UID:
almafu_9961980951302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-50163-4
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9786610501632
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0-7486-2694-8
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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;
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Issued also in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7486-2326-4
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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