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Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs.. by Cailin O'Connor; James Owen Weatherall
Category: Non-Fiction
The social dynamics of "alternative facts" why what you believe depends on who you know Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall a ...Show more
The Misinformation Age - How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O'Connor; James Owen Weatherall
Category: Non-Fiction
An essential volume in a political era riven by "alternative facts" and "fake news," this important new study argues that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understand the persistence of false belief, and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight mi ...Show more
Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing by James Owen Weatherall
Category: Science | Series: Foundational Questions in Science Ser.
The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In ...Show more
Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing by James Owen Weatherall
Category: Science | Series: Foundational Questions in Science
Why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics
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