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Steven Pinker

Rationality

What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

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Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's new favorite book of all time) answers all the questions here Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding-and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational-cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-593-48935-2
  • EAN: 9780593489352
  • Produktnummer: 35888612
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 474 g
  • Gewicht: 474

Über den Autor


Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, and Enlightenment Now. 

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