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When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.

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Good Thinking – Guy P. Harrison

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Prometheus Books ISBN-10: 1633880648 Many books have been written about how to think, ranging from the technical to the superficial, not to mention the supercilious....
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Heretics! – Steven Nadler & Ben Nadler

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The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern PhilosophyPrinceton University PressISBN 9780691168692 Any cartoon-loving philosopher will be sympathetic to a book such as this, a handsomely-produced...
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Intuition: Its Powers and Perils – David G. Myers

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  Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-09531-7 I had a good feeling about this book from the moment I read about it. Vast claims are routinely made for...
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Paleofantasy: what evolution really tells us about sex, diet & how we live – Marlene Zuk

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  W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 10: 0393347923 It's common now to read complaints and warnings about modern life that trace the root of our problems...
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Reality: a very short introduction – Jan Westerhoff

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  OUP, ISBN 10: 0199594414 Westerhoff offers a potted survey of a subject that may be of some interest, though he raises several suspicions as to...
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Decoding Reality – Vlatko Vedral

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  OUP ISBN 978-0-19-969574-4 Quantum physics will always baffle our intuitions, and pop science books trying to explain it will always be written, often by excitable physicists...
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Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others – Robert Trivers

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  Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-713-99826-9 The title is enough to attract any skeptic, and the author’s name should be added bait for anyone familiar with advances...
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The Fact of Evolution – Cameron M. Smith

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Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61614-441-8 It is the fact of denial that has provoked Smith to add yet another species to the teeming ecology of books...
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