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Towards a science of belief systems

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Towards a science of belief systems/ Edmund Griffiths.
Author:	Griffiths, Edmund,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	204 p. :1 ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Belief and doubt. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	113734637X (electronic bk.) :

Towards a science of belief systems
Griffiths, Edmund,1979-

Towards a science of belief systems[electronic resource] /Edmund Griffiths. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 204 p. :1 ill.

Electronic book text.

Introduction. The Idea of a Science of Belief Systems 1. You Don't Know What It's Like! 2. A Descriptive Science of Logic 3. Some Notes on Affect 4. Elements of Comparative Method 5. Belief Systems and the Materialist Conception of History 6. Beliefs That Are Not Supposed To Be Wholly Believed 7. A Theory of Superstition, in Thirteen Paragraphs 8. Believing in Fictional Beings Instead of a Conclusion Appendix. The Use of Symbolic Notation in Descriptive Logic Bibliography.

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People believe in a great many things; and yet most of us know almost nothing about why other people believe what they do, or indeed about how it feels to believe it. This book presents an objective method for understanding and comparing belief systems - irrespective of whether the investigator happens to agree with them.People believe in a great many things: the New Age and the new atheism, astrology and the Juche Idea, the marginal utility theory and a God in three persons. Yet most of us know almost nothing about why other people believe the things they do - or indeed about how it feels to believe them. This book presents an objective method for understanding and comparing belief systems, irrespective of their subject matter and of whether or not the investigator happens to agree with them. The method, descriptive logic, is illustrated through analyses of various phenomena, including Zoroastrianism, Dawkinsism, Fabianism, 9/11 Truth, 'alternative' Egyptology, Gnosticism, flying saucer sightings, and the hymns of Charles Wesley. Special attention is given to beliefs that are not supposed to be wholly believed, and to how descriptive logic relates to the materialist conception of history. The book also outlines a new theory of superstition.

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Edmund Griffiths is a former Research Fellow in Russian at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK (2007-2014).

ISBN: 113734637X (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

556120
Belief and doubt.

LC Class. No.: B837

Dewey Class. No.: 210

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