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Publisher Viking. Publication Date 2021. Section New Hardcover - Nonfiction / Psychology. Type New. Format Hardcover. ISBN 9780525561996. Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now, answers all the questions here.
Collective rationality depends on norms that are explicitly designed to promote objectivity and truth. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with Pinker's customary insight and humor, Rationality will enlighten, inspire ...
The middle part gets slightly too technical and uninteresting but this is minimal. I do wish the last part of the book on morality focused more on what the foundations of mortality are, which rationality recognizes and builds upon: the unavoidable fact of our nature as empathetic, intetconnected creatures (Pinker explores this well elsewhere).
- Steven Pinker
Nevertheless, we need training in rationality just as we need training in literacy and numeracy. The largest portion of this book consists of a fairly advanced manual in critical thinking. It’s not the kind of book that can be read at speed. Each chapter could form the basis for a taught module in logic, probability, game theory and so on ...
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- Steven Pinker
But the bulk of the book is less an open culture war campaign than a May Day parade of rationality’s arsenal. We learn the workings of propositional logic, formal and informal fallacies ...
7. Okt. 2021 · Despite the undeniable power of the sort of rationality he describes, many of the deepest insights in the history of science, math, music and art strike their originators in moments of epiphany ...
His 2023 book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, delves into the enigmatic nature of human progress, examining how we have achieved so many impressive scientific ...
