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The Psychology of Belief What does it mean ‘to believe’? How do we come to our beliefs? How does science matter? David Hume 1711 1775 1711 -- 1775 Impressions Ideas Beliefs Alexander Bain 1818 – 1903 Belief Action Affect Belief Action Maintaining a Belief Confirmation Disconfirmation Change Belief Science Knowledge accrued through Scientific Inquiry Attributes of Science Evidence Based: Observation Tentative Self-Correcting: Critical Assessment Social Consensus But… Scientific knowledge differs from other knowledge But… Is the process of forming scientific beliefs different from the process of forming other beliefs? The Social Dimension Idea Spaces Extra-somatic Repositories of Knowledge Implications We depend on the Reliability and Validity of the Content in Idea Spaces Relevance Education & Beliefs Beliefs, Judgment & Our Hidden Selves Comparing Kinds of Beliefs: Science versus Religion Ideaspace: Knowledge Repository Authorities Process of Believing: Downloading from Ideaspaces
