UN LIBRO DELL'ANNO 2021 DEL TIMES ''Incisivo, divertente e rinvigorente. Pinker è il sommo sacerdote del razionalismo'' Sunday Times ''Se hai mai pensato di assumere droghe per diventare più intelligente, leggi invece Rationality. È più economico, più divertente e più efficace'' Jonathan Haidt, autore di The Righteous Mind Nel ventunesimo secolo, l'umanità sta raggiungendo nuove vette di comprensione scientifica e allo stesso tempo sembra perdere la testa. Come può una specie che ha scoperto i vaccini per il Covid-19 in meno di un anno produrre così tante fake news, cure ciarlatane e teorie del complotto? In Rationality, Pinker rifiuta il cinico cliché secondo cui gli umani sono semplicemente una specie irrazionale: cavernicoli fuori dal tempo fatalmente maledetti da pregiudizi, fallacie e illusioni. Dopotutto, abbiamo scoperto le leggi della natura, allungato e arricchito le nostre vite e fissato i parametri per la razionalità stessa. Invece, spiega, pensiamo in modi che si adattano ai contesti low-tech in cui trascorriamo la maggior parte delle nostre vite, ma non riusciamo a sfruttare i potenti strumenti di ragionamento che abbiamo sviluppato nel corso dei millenni: logica, pensiero critico, probabilità, inferenza causale e processo decisionale in condizioni di incertezza. Questi strumenti non sono una parte standard dei nostri programmi educativi e non sono mai stati presentati in modo chiaro e divertente in un singolo libro, fino ad ora. La razionalità è importante. Porta a scelte migliori nelle nostre vite e nella sfera pubblica ed è il motore ultimo della giustizia sociale e del progresso morale. Ricco di intuizioni e umorismo, Rationality illuminerà, ispirerà e darà potere. ''Un libro fantastico, molto necessario per i nostri tempi'' Peter Singer.
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Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'.
In the twenty-first 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 discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?
In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed 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, we think in ways that suit 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 millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. 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 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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