What beliefs are made from / Jonathan Leicester.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- The Problem with Belief -- Some Strange Shared Beliefs -- CULTURE-BOUND PSYCHOSES -- EPIDEMIC HYSTERIA -- MYTHS AND LEGENDS -- RUMOURS AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES -- Four Theories of Belief -- THE INTELLECTUALISTIC THEORY OF BELIEF -- THE DISPOSITIONAL THEORY OF BELIEF -- Belief and Judgement -- THE FEELING THEORY OF BELIEF -- ELIMINATIVIST THEORIES OF BELIEF -- FOOTNOTE -- The Evolution of Mind -- FOOTNOTE -- Causes of Belief -- USING EVIDENCE -- FAILURE TO USE EVIDENCE -- FAULTY USE OF EVIDENCE

INABILITY TO WITHHOLD JUDGEMENT. VACILLATING BELIEFS -- DESIRE. WISHFUL THINKING -- THE BELIEVER'S PRIOR BELIEFS -- SHARED BELIEFS OF COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS -- DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND TESTIMONY -- Near-death Experiences -- THE SOURCE OF TESTIMONY -- INTELLIGENCE -- EGO DEFENCE MECHANISMS -- PERSONALITY -- MOOD AND EMOTION -- LANGUAGE -- THE POWER OF REPETITION. PROPAGANDA -- The Exposure Effect -- MYSTICAL THINKING AND REVELATION -- NATURAL CREDULITY -- FOOTNOTE -- Belief, Consciousness, Attention -- CONSCIOUSNESS -- ATTENTION -- Centre and Periphery of Attention -- Automatic Attention

Deliberate Attention -- Divided Attention, Multitasking -- Terminating and Switching Attention -- Disorders of Attention -- FOOTNOTE -- Memory and Belief -- WORKING MEMORY -- IMPLICIT, TACIT, OR NON-DECLARATIVE MEMORY -- Introspection and Belief -- Emotions and Feelings -- PROPERTIES OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS -- SOME PARTICULAR EMOTIONS IN RELATION TO BELIEF -- The Feeling of Disgust -- The Emotion of Anger -- Pride, Humility, and Meekness -- The Feeling of Remorse -- Tenderness -- The Feeling of Spirituality -- The Feeling of Urge -- Perception -- MENTAL IMAGERY -- Personality

In-Groups and Out-Groups -- Symbolism -- Speech and Language -- NAMES, DESCRIPTIVE NAMES, AND DESCRIPTIONS -- NAMING INEFFABLE THINGS -- PARTICULARS AND UNIVERSALS -- IDENTIFYING UNIVERSALS. NOMINALISM AND REALISM -- MISUNDERSTANDING -- THE WHORF-SAPIR HYPOTHESIS -- The Role of Belief During Inquiry -- Complexity, Children, Dreams -- BELIEF ABOUT COMPLEX SUBJECTS -- BELIEFS AND DISBELIEFS OF YOUNG CHILDREN -- BELIEF DURING DREAMS -- Illnesses that Affect Belief -- NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE AND BELIEF -- Frontal Lobe Disease and Counterfactual Thinking -- Medial Temporal or Limbic Epilepsy

Drug Intoxication. In the Zone -- Neglect Syndromes -- The 'Split Brain' or Callosotomy Syndrome -- PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND BELIEF -- Depression -- Obsessive Hypochondriasis -- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder -- Delusions and Schizophrenia -- Nature and Purpose of Belief -- BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE, AND OPINION -- BELIEF AND TRUTH -- Conscience -- Dualism and Immaterial Mind -- Appendix. The Brain: Structure and Function -- ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN -- THE NEURON -- NEURAL PLASTICITY -- Notes -- CHAPTER 1. THE PROBLEM WITH BELIEF -- CHAPTER 2. STRANGE SHARED BELIEFS -- Culture-bound Psychoses

Annotation "What Beliefs Are Made From explores the nature and purpose of belief. The book describes several strange beliefs that have been shared by many members of whole communities. The intellectualistic, dispositional, feeling and eliminativist theories of belief"

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