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- Title
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origi...
- ISBN
- 0571209203
- EAN
- 9780571209200
- Type
- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2006-03-16
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- Release Title
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origi...
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- Wolpert, Lewis
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In Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice that to believe in a wildly improbable fact she simply needs to try: 'draw a long breath and shut your eyes'. Alice finds this advice ridiculous. but don't almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical thinking? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at the belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. How did toolmaking drive human evolution? Is it the lack of an explanation about fundamental questions which is truly intolerable? Are we born with an evolutionary propensity to believe in things that make us feel better? Wolpert explores the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from psychiatric disorders. And he asks whether it is possible to live without belief at all, or whether it is a necessary component of a functioning society.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571209200
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89943106
Product Key Features
Book Title
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
191mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
304g
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Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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