http://www.michaelshermer.com books, essays, columns, reviews, and multimedia clips of famed skeptic Michael Shermer Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/mr-deity-and-the-skeptic/ http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/mr-deity-and-the-skeptic/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:17:19 +0000 Michael Shermer http://www.michaelshermer.com/?p=1199 Skeptic Michael Shermer pleads his case before Jesus and Mr. Deity.
Watch all Mr. Deity episodes at MrDeity.com.

]]> http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/mr-deity-and-the-skeptic/feed/ 7 http://skepticblog.org/2009/03/26/the-belief-trilogy/ http://skepticblog.org/2009/03/26/the-belief-trilogy/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:00:56 +0000 Michael Shermer http://skepticblog.org/?p=1737 This is a brief video introduction to the power of belief through the three books of my trilogy: Why People Believe Weird Things, How We Believe, The Science of Good and Evil, and (pace Douglas Adams) volume 4 of the trilogy, The Mind of the Market. The first volume is on science and pseudoscience and, as the title says, why people believe weird things. Vol. 2, How We Believe, is on why people believe in God (but the publisher didn’t want to call it that so they went with the more generic title on belief). Vol. 3 is on why we are moral, but since the book deals more than with the evolutionary origins of morality, they once again went with the broader title. Vol. 4, then, expands on the theme of belief in the realm of economics, and why people believe weird things about money and why markets seem to have a mind of their own.

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