Brimming with Pinker’s customary insight and humor, Rationality will enlighten, inspire, and empower. previous 1 2 3 next sort by previous 1 2 3 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. 180,871 ratings 13,927 reviews shelved 794,843 times Showing 30 distinct works. Toppled Wineglasses, Dirty Plates, and a Cacophony of Argument Politics The Worst Sentence You’ll Read Today: Steven. Collective rationality depends on norms that are explicitly designed to promote objectivity and truth. Steven Pinker’s new book contains the worst sentence you will read today. Rationality also explores its opposite: how the rational pursuit of self-interest, sectarian solidarity, and uplifting mythology can add up to crippling irrationality in a society. These tools are not a standard part of our education, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book–until now. We actually think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we’ve discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational–cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, studied experimental psychology at McGill University and Harvard University.He is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding–and also appears to be losing its mind. 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 (Bill Gates’s “new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here

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