Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Pinker Steven)(Paperback)

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Rationality, Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's new favorite book of all time").
The topic is urgent. In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and "post-truth" rhetoric? Pinker, a cognitive scientist and advocate of human progress, rejects the cynical clich that humans are an irrational species--cavemen out of time who are poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we are the species that discovered the laws
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