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Listopia > Edward Sudall's votes on the list Post Truth Reading (19 Books)
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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"There's a lot of sexism which uses appeals to nature and different biological-sex brains. Overwhelmingly this is confirmation bias distorting results. Dr Fine clears away misconceptions."
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
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"It is not nature, but culture and history that results in racism. "
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The Prince
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"Controversial as it is, politicians, in many ways, have to be bad to succeed in politics. I did a long form essay arguing why http://www.fondthinker.com/politics/r..."
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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"Vested interests are real: not a conspiracy. They convince you who to vote for, for money."
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
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"For Rorty, rather than truth be relative, truth is contingent. I disagree since the speed of light in vacuo and the laws of themodynamics are not truth via frame of reference, but it gives a readable account of how the fictional and compassionate are valuable even if a lot of our assumptions and culture are framed--not objective. "
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Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction
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"Most use 'objective' wrongly. This explains how, and what it is wonderfully."
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The Problems of Philosophy
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"For the essay on probable (and ergo improbable) opinion. "
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Practical Ethics
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"What matters in ethics in the shortest time possible."
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The Evolution of Morality (Life And Mind/a Bradford Book)
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"How nature is a set of dispositions that are brought out favourably or unfavourably in the environment - including morals."
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Economics: The User's Guide
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"A readable and democratic primer to the pseudoscience and value-judgements of economics."
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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"Exceptional people are just that - outside of the average and almost always hugely favoured by luck, money, and biases. There is no self-made success."
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Who Governs Britain?
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"An expose of the levels of government citizens likely won't think about, unless they read this."
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
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"Pseudoscience is thrown around a lot, especially in the shape of statistics. This can help remedy that."
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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"Reason is all we have, and it is precious. A readable and short guide to understanding science methods, and reason, and why they are valuable. "
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
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Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed
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Bad Science
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"Explains daily pseudoscience and the misuse of the 'science' name to misjustify bad claims"
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We Should All Be Feminists
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The Culture Industry
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