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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,793 ratings — published 2007
Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,833 ratings — published 1677
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,921 ratings — published 2006
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,316 ratings — published 1637
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,727 ratings — published 2004
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 30,140 ratings — published 1641
Philosophical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,015 ratings — published 1716
Discourse on Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.72 — 25,831 ratings — published 1637
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,676 ratings — published 1686
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,848 ratings — published 2011
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.99 — 42,821 ratings — published 2006
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,330 ratings — published 1641
The Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,503 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 — 81,770 ratings — published 1995
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,437 ratings — published 2017
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,310 ratings — published 1781
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,140 ratings — published 2008
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,643 ratings — published 2015
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,800 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 — 204,468 ratings — published 2018
Theological-Political Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,264 ratings — published 1670
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,523 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 — 3,196 ratings — published 1991
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,675 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 — 8,241 ratings — published 2007
Rationality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,584 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 4.09 — 7,061 ratings — published 2021
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,152 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,743 ratings — published 2015
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,794 ratings — published 2018
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,297 ratings — published 1979
G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,805 ratings — published 1714
Irrationality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,657 ratings — published 1992
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,865 ratings — published 2012
Critique of Practical Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,980 ratings — published 1788
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,516 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 — 27,618 ratings — published 2011
The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,974 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 — 10,002 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 — 7,962 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 — 10,798 ratings — published 2006
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,929 ratings — published 2001
A Treatise of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,792 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 — 2,541 ratings — published 1641
Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.73 — 442 ratings — published 1637
The Passions of the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,486 ratings — published 1649
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.23 — 898 ratings — published 2005
Three Worlds Collide (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,597 ratings — published 2009
On the Improvement of Understanding (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 3.67 — 930 ratings — published 1667
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as rationalism)
avg rating 4.38 — 299 ratings — published
“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for these great achievements is claimed by the new spirit of rationalism, a rationalism that, it is argued, has finally been able to tear from man's eyes the shrouds imposed by mystical thought, religion, and such powerful illusions as freedom and dignity. Science has given us this great victory over ignorance. But, on closer examination, this victory too can be seen as an Orwellian triumph of an even higher ignorance: what we have gained is a new conformism, which permits us to say anything that can be said in the functional languages of instrumental reason, but forbids us to allude to...the living truth...so we may discuss the very manufacture of life and its 'objective' manipulations, but we may not mention God, grace, or morality.”
― Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
― Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
“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
