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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 114,316 ratings — published 2007
Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,134 ratings — published 1677
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,110 ratings — published 2006
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,565 ratings — published 1637
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 30,422 ratings — published 1641
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,839 ratings — published 2004
Philosophical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,021 ratings — published 1716
Discourse on Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.72 — 26,040 ratings — published 1637
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,688 ratings — published 1686
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,747 ratings — published 2011
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,955 ratings — published 2006
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,352 ratings — published 1641
The Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,539 ratings — published 1794
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,477 ratings — published 1995
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,449 ratings — published 2017
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,809 ratings — published 1781
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,261 ratings — published 2008
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,871 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,843 ratings — published 2015
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,809 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,664 ratings — published 2018
Theological-Political Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,297 ratings — published 1670
G. W. Leibniz's Monadology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,912 ratings — published 1714
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,601 ratings — published 2010
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,201 ratings — published 1991
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,883 ratings — published 2009
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,243 ratings — published 2007
Rationality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,642 ratings — published 2021
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,180 ratings — published 2021
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,209 ratings — published 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,943 ratings — published 2018
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,669 ratings — published 1979
Irrationality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,663 ratings — published 1992
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,014 ratings — published 2012
Critique of Practical Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,043 ratings — published 1788
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,515 ratings — published 1999
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,734 ratings — published 2011
The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,983 ratings — published
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,016 ratings — published 1997
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,969 ratings — published 2003
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,824 ratings — published 2006
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,986 ratings — published 2001
A Treatise of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,824 ratings — published 1739
Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,567 ratings — published 1641
Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 444 ratings — published 1637
The Passions of the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,506 ratings — published 1649
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.23 — 904 ratings — published 2005
Three Worlds Collide (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,602 ratings — published 2009
On the Improvement of Understanding (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.67 — 944 ratings — published 1667
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction, to the bare name of which we must defer. When the pragmatist undertakes to show in detail just why we must defer, the rationalist is unable to recognise the concretes from which his own abstraction is taken. He accuses us of denying truth; whereas we have only sought to trace exactly why people follow it and always ought to follow it. Your typical ultra-abstractions fairly shudders at concreteness: other things equal, he positively prefers the pale and spectral. If the two universes were offered, he would always choose the skinny outline rather than the rich thicket of reality. It is so much purer, clearer, nobler.”
― Pragmatism and Other Writings
― Pragmatism and Other Writings
“Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.”
― Rationalism in Politics and other essays
― Rationalism in Politics and other essays
