CFI | DC and Sixth & I Present Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world.
Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine and the director of The Skeptics Society.
“Michael Shermer has long been one of our most committed champions of scientific thinking in the face of popular delusion. In The Believing Brain, he has written a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief. We have all fallen more deeply in his debt.” –Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Moral Landscape, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The End of Faith.
Tickets for the General Public: $8 in advance, $10 the day of the event, or receive 1 Free Ticket with the purchase of the book ($28) through Sixth & I.
Tickets for CFI Friends of the Center: Free admission with advance registration, $10 the day of the event, or receive 1 Free Ticket with the purchase of the book ($28) through CFI | DC.
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