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A review by gnug315
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
4.0
While Pinker’s excellent The Blank Slate is also quite debatable, “Rationality” feels like #nothingbutthetruth - but of course also not #thewholetruth - a microscopic but worthwhile contribution towards progress, and imho good enough to constitue mandatory reading in any high school.
Readers well familar with (ir)rationality and beyesian reasoning may profitably skip ahead to the juicy tenth chapter, which Pinker himself introduces with the words “This is the chapter most of you have been waiting for.” It didn’t dissapoint.
For further reading on why everyone (else) is crazy - which Pinker rationalises about in an suitably humble manner - I highly recommend “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt.
Readers well familar with (ir)rationality and beyesian reasoning may profitably skip ahead to the juicy tenth chapter, which Pinker himself introduces with the words “This is the chapter most of you have been waiting for.” It didn’t dissapoint.
For further reading on why everyone (else) is crazy - which Pinker rationalises about in an suitably humble manner - I highly recommend “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt.