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Book Review

Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People

Levy, Neil, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 224 pp., £55.00, ISBN: 9780192895325 Free to download from: https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780192895325.pdf

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