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Steven Pinker 出版社: Viking 副标题: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters 出版年: 2021-9-28 页数: 432 定价: USD 32.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781524742874
“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times
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 al...
“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times
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 the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. We actually 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’ve discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. These tools are not a standard part of our education, 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 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 Pinker’s customary insight and humor, Rationality will enlighten, inspire, and empower.
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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...
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.
哈佛大学教授、心理学家、作家史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker）2021年的新书《理性》（Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters）又是一部字面意义上的左右开弓之作，他试图辩护的核心主旨听起来一如既往的伟大、直白、正确——“我们应当追随理性”（we s...
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It’s a good book, in which I like Pinker’s brand view of humans, rationality, and the universe from the time and perception domain. What is rationality? “Human rationality is a hybrid system. The brain contains pattern associators that soak up family res...
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0 有用 吕毅 2024-09-01 19:58:41 浙江
Steven Pinker的写作是相当好的，只是这本书的内容并不是他深入研究的领域，里面的内容许多在不同书中看到过，感觉像是一个jounalist写的书。如果你对书中的内容陌生，那还是很值得通过读这本书来加以了解的。
1 有用 Petite étoile 2024-01-23 04:41:02 法国
比较基础