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Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation - Tapa blanda

Humphrey, Nicholas

 
9780387987200: Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation
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ISBN 10: 0387987207 ISBN 13: 9780387987200
Editorial: Springer, 2008

Sinopsis

"Elegant and literate" -THE TIMES OF LONDON
"The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read"- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER
"An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions" -NEW SCIENTIST
"A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it."-NATURE

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Acerca del autor

Nicholas Humphrey is Professor of Psychology at The New School University and a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

De la contraportada

Leaps of Faith is a compelling and highly praised critique of beliefs in paranormal phenomena, miracles, and the like, written by the noted British psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. The author argues that our beliefs in the supernatural typically originate in anxiety about the future and are sustained by an entrenched belief in the duality of mind and body. More than just a debunking of supernaturalism, Leaps of Faith explores the psychology of the all-too-human tendency for wishful thinking. It explains why we hark after a fantasy world of magic and miracles - even when, arguably, we already live in the only world that offers real hope of fulfillment.

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Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0387987207
ISBN 13 
9780387987200
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
244
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