Rationality. What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now
Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we're so smart: how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and lengthened and