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Michael Shermer Lecture: "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts & Gods to Politics & Conspiracies--How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths"

October 12, 2012
4:00PM - 5:30PM
170 Davis Heart Lung Institute, 473 West 12th Ave.

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Add to Calendar 2012-10-12 16:00:00 2012-10-12 17:30:00 Michael Shermer Lecture: "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts & Gods to Politics & Conspiracies--How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths" Event Host: Center for Ethics and Human Values The Center for Ethics and Human Values presents Michael Sherman Lecture: "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts & God to Politics & Conspiracies--How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths."Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of The Skeptic Magazine and a regular columnist for Scientific American.How are beliefs formed? Why are they so resistant to contrary evidence?  How do the mold ideas about religion, politics, good and evil? 170 Davis Heart Lung Institute, 473 West 12th Ave. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Event Host: Center for Ethics and Human Values


The Center for Ethics and Human Values presents Michael Sherman Lecture: "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts & God to Politics & Conspiracies--How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths."

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of The Skeptic Magazine and a regular columnist for Scientific American.

How are beliefs formed? Why are they so resistant to contrary evidence?  How do the mold ideas about religion, politics, good and evil?