December 02, 2011

Books

Science Fictions

The Believing BrainFrom Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as TruthsMichael ShermerTimes Books, $28, 400 pp.

Joseph Bottum

Few baseball players have ever plumbed the epistemological depths of baseball, few stockbrokers have written groundbreaking works of theoretical economics, and few of those who are good at physics have proved much good at metaphysics. Science simply isn’t the same thing as the philosophy of science, and few real scientists would imagine the two interchangeable. But Michael Sh (...)


 

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