- Abstract:
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There is a robust scientific consensus concerning climate change and evolution. But many people reject these expert views, in favour of beliefs that are strongly at variance with the evidence. It is tempting to try to explain these beliefs by reference to ignorance or irrationality, but those who reject the expert view seem often to be no worse informed or any less rational than the majority of those who accept it. It is also tempting to try to explain these beliefs by reference to epistemic ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Synthese Journal website
- Volume:
- 196
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 313–327
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-19
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
- Pubs id:
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pubs:701534
- URN:
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uri:4ad4557a-8c17-429f-9dae-b102bb94bd26
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uuid:4ad4557a-8c17-429f-9dae-b102bb94bd26
- Local pid:
- pubs:701534
- Copyright holder:
- Neil Levy
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Author. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Due deference to denialism: explaining ordinary people’s rejection of established scientific findings
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