Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are …
Want to Read $ 8.99"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
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1. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
By: Richard Dawkins
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colour… read more
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- philosophy
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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"Abraham was left in no doubt that the future lay with his seed, not his individuality. God knew his Darwinism."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"A brain that is good at simulating models in imagination is also, almost inevitably, in danger of self-delusion."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
2. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
3. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads th… read more
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4. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
By: Rebecca Goldstein
4.33
Format: 228 pages,
KURT GODEL IS CONSIDERED the twentieth century's greatest mathematician. His monumental theorem of … read more
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5. The Enigma of Reason
By: Dan Sperber , Hugo Mercier
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is s… read more
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6. Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
By: Karl Sigmund , None
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the worl… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
9. Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
By: Richard Dawkins
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to th… read more
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10. I've Been Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.76
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
"How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is a… read more
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11. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
By: Jonathan Rauch
4.25
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts Disinformation. Trolling. Conspir… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
"Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent."-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
"If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social n…"-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
12. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- social science
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- sociology
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
13. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- history
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
14. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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15. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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- psychology
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
16. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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- self help
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
17. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
18. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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19. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
20. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
21. Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
By: Hugo Mercier
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can … read more
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