Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. 'A terrific book, much-needed for our time' Peter Singer
Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty.
After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself.
In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions.
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