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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pinker, Steven, 1954- author.     Subjects     Critical thinking.     Practical reason.     Choice (Psychology)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pinker, Steven, 1954- author.       by title:      Rationality : what i...         MARC Display

Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / Steven Pinker. by Pinker, Steven, 1954- author. [New York, New York] : Viking, [2021] Subjects Critical thinking.   Practical reason.   Choice (Psychology) ISBN:  9780525561996 (hardcover) : 0525561994 (hardcover) : Description:  xvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  How rational an animal? -- Rationality and irrationality -- Logic and critical thinking -- Probability and randomness -- Beliefs and evidence (Bayesian reasoning) -- Risk and reward (rational choice and expected utility) -- Hits and false alarms (signal detection and statistical decision theory) -- Self and others (game theory) -- Correlation and causation -- What's wrong with people? -- Why rationality matters. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker a cognitive scientist and rational optimist argues, cannot be the whole picture. Hunter-gatherers--our ancestors and contemporaries--are not nervous rabbits but cerebral problem-solvers. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we're so smart: how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and lengthened and enriched our lives. Indeed, if humans were fundamentally irrational, how did they discover the benchmarks for rationality against which humans fall short? The topic could not be more timely. 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 sequenced the genome and detected the Big Bang produce so much fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and "post-truth" rhetoric? A big part of Rationality is to explain these tools--to inspire an intuitive understanding of the benchmarks of rationality, so you can understand the basics of logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, the optimal ways to adjust our beliefs and commit to decisions with uncertain evidence, and the yardsticks for making rational choices alone and with others. Rationality matters. As the world reels from foolish choices made in the past and dreads a future that may be shaped by senseless choices in the present, rationality may be the most important asset that citizens and influencers command. Steven Pinker, the great defender of human progress, having documented how the world is not falling apart, now shows how we can enhance rationality in our lives and in the public sphere. Rationality is the perfect toolkit to seize our own fates"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Koloa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.42 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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