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