Bad Beliefs

Bad Beliefs
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780192895325
ISBN-13 : 019289532X
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Book Synopsis Bad Beliefs by : Neil Levy

Download or read book Bad Beliefs written by Neil Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational processes. We've missed the rationality of bad beliefs because we've failed to recognize the ubiquity of the higher-order evidence that shapes beliefs, and the rationality of being guided by this evidence. The book argues that attention to higher-order evidence should lead us to rethink both how minds are best changed and the ethics of changing them: we should come to see that nudging - at least usually - changes belief (and behavior) by presenting rational agents with genuine evidence, and is therefore fully respectful of intellectual agency. We needn't rethink Enlightenment ideals of intellectual autonomy and rationality, but we should reshape them to take account of our deeply social epistemic agency"--


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