Rationality: Summary & Review

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (2021) by Steven Pinker explores human reasoning, its strengths, its limitations, how to increase it, and its critical importance to both individual well-being, and humanity as a whole.

Exec SummaryRationality is a public good that we must defend from a tragedy of the commons. Each of us has a motive to prefer our truth, but together we’re better off with the truth.Humans are more logic than cognitive biases would sugge...