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Mental immunity : infectious ideas, mind-parasites, and the search for a better way to think Cover Image Book Book

Mental immunity : infectious ideas, mind-parasites, and the search for a better way to think / Andy Norman ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.

Norman, Andy, (author.). Pinker, Steven, 1954- (writer of foreword.).

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  • ISBN: 9780063002982
  • ISBN: 0063002981
  • Physical Description: xiii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-380) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / by Steven Pinker -- Introduction: Tree of life, seeds of death -- Beyond critical thinking : why existing approaches are failing us -- The cognitive immunology toolbox : naming the problem -- The widening gyre : why mental immune systems collapse -- Six immune-disruptive ideas : ... and their antidotes -- Fighting monsters : ... without becoming one yourself -- The ethics of faith : what is responsible belief? -- Thought police need not apply : how (not) to regulate belief -- Reason's fulcrum : the peculiar magic of reasons -- Reason unhinged : how thinking becomes ideological -- Mind upgrade : can we update the brain's operating system? -- Seductive misconceptions : how rationalism lost its way -- The mind vaccine : rethinking reason's requirements -- Conclusion. Propagating enlightenment : how to bend the arc of history.
Summary, etc.:
"Philosopher Andy Norman dives into the world of mind-parasites, ideas that cause destructive thinking and extremism, and describes how to inoculate your mind to keep it safe from bad ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Ideology > Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.
Reason.

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