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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
4.37 avg rating — 7,040 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.29 avg rating — 31,050 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Douglas Adams
4.20 avg rating — 948,210 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman
4.05 avg rating — 119,439 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 90,403 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Dan Ariely
4.09 avg rating — 59,312 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin A. Abbott
3.81 avg rating — 35,894 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard Feynman
4.29 avg rating — 84,107 ratings
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
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Maria Konnikova (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 4,281 ratings
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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.36 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Sophie's World
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Jostein Gaarder
3.87 avg rating — 132,184 ratings
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Godel's Proof
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Ernest Nagel
4.13 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
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Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
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Daniel C. Dennett
3.81 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
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Dan Ariely
3.98 avg rating — 19,139 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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Brian Greene
4.05 avg rating — 63,445 ratings
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Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
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Gary L. Drescher
4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 53,677 ratings
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Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed
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Gary Kemp
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Mortal Questions
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Thomas Nagel
3.99 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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Richard Feynman
4.58 avg rating — 5,467 ratings
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The Society of Mind
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Marvin Minsky
3.99 avg rating — 2,371 ratings
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
3.88 avg rating — 6,470 ratings
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Robert A. Burton
3.92 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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Norton Juster
4.22 avg rating — 172,251 ratings
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
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Keith J. Devlin
3.62 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Logicomix: An epic search for truth
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Apostolos Doxiadis
3.99 avg rating — 10,947 ratings
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The Secret Of NIMH
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Seymour Reit
4.23 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
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Lewis Carroll Epstein (Illustrations)
4.34 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology
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A.P. Martinich (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Freedom Evolves
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Daniel C. Dennett
3.79 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Logical Positivism
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A.J. Ayer (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Malcolm Gladwell
3.87 avg rating — 320,156 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
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Euclid
4.26 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
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Language, Truth, and Logic
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A.J. Ayer
3.72 avg rating — 2,861 ratings
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Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
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Michael A. Bishop
4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett
3.89 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
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Robert Kurzban
3.92 avg rating — 390 ratings
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
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V.S. Ramachandran
3.98 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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Carol Tavris
3.98 avg rating — 14,010 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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Tali Sharot
3.70 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
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Rebecca Goldstein
3.93 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge
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Morris Kline
3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
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Morris Kline
4.12 avg rating — 312 ratings
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How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
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Michael J. Gelb (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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Find Your Purpose Using Science
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness: Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
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Daniel Pinchbeck (Editor)
3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
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Friedrich Nietzsche
4.13 avg rating — 11,500 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
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Scott Aaronson
4.13 avg rating — 337 ratings
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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Betty Edwards
3.83 avg rating — 182,031 ratings
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How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
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George Pólya
4.16 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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Sigmund Freud
3.75 avg rating — 22,383 ratings
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Think Like a Freak
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Steven D. Levitt
3.81 avg rating — 27,790 ratings
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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Alice Miller
4.09 avg rating — 9,866 ratings
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
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Robert Wright
3.96 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
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Theodore Schick Jr.
3.95 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Master Tutor: A Guidebook For More Effective Tutoring
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Ross B. MacDonald
2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.05 avg rating — 11,108 ratings
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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Hugh MacLeod
3.83 avg rating — 6,350 ratings
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Principia Mathematica, Vol 1
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Bertrand Russell
4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 71,794 ratings
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 20,526 ratings
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
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Twyla Tharp
3.95 avg rating — 9,517 ratings
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
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Clay Shirky
3.82 avg rating — 3,885 ratings
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