- Psychology, reasoning, critical thinking, Practical reason
Like the subtitle says: what rationality is, the habits of mind that exhibit (and inhibit) rationality, and why wide-spread rationality is desirable.
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- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Zysk i S-ka, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780141989860
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“Homo sapiens means wise hominin, and in many ways we have earned the specific epithet of our Linnaean binomial.”
Steven Arthur "Steve" Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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