Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Steven Pinker
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Behavioral Neuroscience
Behavioural Neuroscience
Conspiracy Theories
Correlation Vs Causation
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Logic
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Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are an irrational species - 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 the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains that we 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 have built up over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation and decision-making. 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.
Rationality also explores its opposite: how the rational pursuit of self-interest, sectarian solidarity and uplifting mythology by individuals 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 insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
November 19th, 2023
Logic has never been the basis of any elementary course of instruction, unlike - for example - Religious Education. This is partly because it is far easier to teach dogma than dialectic, but mainly because most states require many more myrmidons than research chemists.
I’ve been pleased to see how Steven Pinker has been getting angrier and angrier about the failure of secularism in the Western democracies, and delighted about how articulate his analysis of the issue is.
But then, prejudice doesn’t listen.
November 19th, 2023
…that’s really very dogmatic.
(Prejudice also keeps misquoting, mischaracterising & getting caught.)
Also, go easy on secularism - what does this guy want, Sharia law?
November 19th, 2023
Moreover, if you ever catch a myrmidon, always throw it back in the water.
November 19th, 2023
But then, prejudice doesn’t listen.
November 19th, 2023
…that, & it keeps getting caught misquoting & mischaracterising. Oy…
November 20th, 2023
Thanks for uploading this book. Really appreciate it.
⭐⭐⭐👉I want to share this info with people coming over here to download stuff.
On 19 nov 23 a book called ‘on palestine’ by naom Chomsky and pappe was uploaded on the site and I wanted to download it, after a few hours when i came back to download it, i found that it was removed.
There is this person with the user name of ‘freepalestine’ some of his uploads that gave the point of view of Palestine have been removed as well.
I know this is a piracy site and you can not point fingers at people for doing something, but I wanted to point this out.
I want folks who come here to check it for themselves and know that this is happening.
November 20th, 2023
🤬🤬🤬
Mastram: I would prefer it if you didn’t pollute my uploads with your conspiratorial rants about unrelated books from an unrelated member.
The forum exists for you to have these discussions.
While I’m writing, though, I can assure you that nobody has been censored, and the user in question has all his genuine books still in tact, and removals have been books generated with automated voices.
November 22nd, 2023
This is for Mastram, and those who associate with said user.
⛔ Stop spamming torrents with bogus complaints ⛔
For details of torrents removed see the forum:
https://audiobookbay.lu/forum/bad-torrents/skynet-roboreader-books/msg274856/#msg274856
Torrents are removed for being duplicates or for not being genuine audiobooks.
November 23rd, 2023
thanks
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