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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Publication year:
2011
ISBN:
978-0-8050-9125-0
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Table of Contents:
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Prologue: I Want to Believe
Part I: Journeys of Belief
1. Mr. D'Arpino's Dilemma
2. Dr. Collins's Conversion
3. A Skeptic's Journey
Part II: The Biology of Belief
4. Patternicity
5. Agenticity
6. The Believing Neuron
Part III: Belief in Things Unseen
7. Belief in the Afterlife
8. Belief in God
9. Belief in Aliens
10. Belief in Conspiracies
Part IV: Belief in Things Seen
11. Politics of Belief
12. Confirmations of Belief
13. Geographies of Belief
14. Cosmologies of Belief
Epilogue: The Truth Is Out There
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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