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Rationality

What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

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Rationality

De : Steven Pinker
Lu par : Arthur Morey
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 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


Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind. 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?

Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational--cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. 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. These tools are not a standard part of our education, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book--until now.

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. 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, and empower.


* This audiobook includes a PDF of charts and graphs. Medienwissenschaften Seelische & Geistige Gesundheit Sozialtheorie Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Wissenschaft

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"Erudite, lucid, funny and dense with fascinating material . . . A pragmatic dose of measured optimism, presenting rationality as a fragile but achievable ideal in personal and civic life. . . . It’s no small achievement to make formal logic, game theory, statistics and Bayesian reasoning delightful topics full of charm and relevance."—The Washington Post

“An impassioned and zippy introduction to the tools of rational thought… Punchy, funny and invigorating.”—The Times (London)

“An engaging analysis of the highest of our faculties and perhaps (ironically) the least understood” —The Wall Street Journal

“If you’ve ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead.”—Jonathan Haidt, New York Times bestselling co-author of THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND

“Pinker manages to be scrupulously rigorous yet steadily accessible and entertaining whether probing the rationality of Andrew Yang’s presidential platform, Dilbert cartoons, or Yiddish proverbs. The result is both a celebration of humans’ ability to make things better with careful thinking and a penetrating rebuke to muddleheadedness”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

“A reader-friendly primer in better thinking through the cultivation of that rarest of rarities: a sound argument.”—Kirkus Reviews
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+technical explanations of the different topics are great

-bias example selection (anglo-cultural, left leaning)

Great on knowledge wise, but bias examples

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This Book is teaching Rationality in practical way.
It is a great beginning for this Kind of mature Thinking and acting. I enjoyed the audiobook, but It was so dense that I bought the book ( in my native language, German) to work with.

100 % recommended

Big Thank you to Steven Pinker.

Great Book

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I like Pinker but this one feels like a lot of concepts related to rationality vaguely strung together, with some elaborated in almost tedious detail, like formal logic and Bayesian probability. There are also a lot of tables and graphs, which are difficult to convey in an audiobook (despite decent effort) if you cannot look at the PDF. I certainly took something from it, but I won't be recommending it as much as some of his other books.

Meanders a lot

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Pinker oversimplifies some issues by looking at them from only one perspective. But other than that, it was great. For people without prior statistical knowledge it might be difficult to follow without the PDF.

Sometimes a little too simple

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