Episodes

We like to think that we are rational, that what we believe is what is true. But we often believe because of our “belief systems”-“how we believe” may...

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How Belief Systems Work

Episode 10

Season 10

26:46

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Topic Series

4 items

Everyone has beliefs—some are simple and basic (e.g., my name, age), others complex and controversial (e.g., God? Soul? Politics? Morality?). But what is the concept of...

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What is Belief?

Topic Series

5 videos

43:53

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Why are ‘belief systems’ so powerful? How do they control religion and politics and all ways of thinking from a scientific worldview to conspiracy theories? What...

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How Belief Systems Work

Topic Series

8 videos

1:04:17

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Why do people believe the things they do? We like to think that we are rational, that what we believe is true. But often we come to our beliefs, unknowingly, as a product of...

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How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 2)

Topic Series

8 videos

1:01:40

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Why do people believe the things they do? We like to think that we are rational, that what we believe is true. But often we come to our beliefs, unknowingly, as a product of...

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How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 1)

Topic Series

6 videos

51:28

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Roundtables

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As two practitioners for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) square off with a traditionally-trained medical doctor and a leading public health advocate, their...

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Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

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26:10

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Contributors

28 items

Robert Audi

Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Julian Baggini

Philosopher and jouranlist; Co-founder, The Philosophe's Magazine

Susan Blackmore

Writer, Lecturer, Psychologist, Skeptic; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth

Pascal Boyer

Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis

George Geis

Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA Anderson

Belief Systems

Episodes

How Belief Systems Work

Topic Series

What is Belief?

How Belief Systems Work

How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 2)

How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 1)

Roundtables

Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

Contributors

Robert Audi

Julian Baggini

Susan Blackmore

Pascal Boyer

Warren Brown

Hyla Cass

Deepak Chopra

Daniel Dennett

Jared Diamond

Gregory Ganssle

Jay Garfield

George Geis

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Anthony Grayling

Joshua Greene

William Jarvis

Daniel Labriola

Stephen Law

John Leslie

Elizabeth Loftus

Bertram Malle

Patrick McNamara

Wallace Sampson

Eric Schwitzgebel

John Searle

Michael Shermer

W. Christopher Stewart

Natasha Vita-More

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Belief Systems

Episodes

How Belief Systems Work

Topic Series

What is Belief?

How Belief Systems Work

How Belief Systems Affect Believers (Part 2)

Roundtables

Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

Contributors

Robert Audi

Julian Baggini

Susan Blackmore

Pascal Boyer