Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce by Steven Pinker | Book Club

Full Title: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Suggested by: Member
Pages to read: 274
ISBN: 9780525561996 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780525562009 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is the Monty Hall dilemma?
•What is the conjunction rule of probability?
•What is the reality mindset and the mythology mindset?
•Is rationality an individual process or a communal process?
•How do the San use reason to hunt?
•What is rationality?
•What does the visual system inform you of?
•What is the difference between reason and logic?
•Should people choose to persuade or coerce?
•How do universities influence the spread of ideas?
•What is the marshmallow dilemma?
•Is it better to delay gratification or seek to gratify oneself immediately?
•What is the game of chicken?
•What is the Madman Theory?
•What are the valid inferences of formal logic?
•What information does logic have?
•What are different kinds of logical fallacies?
•What puts a category together?
•What are the odds of a financial market analysist making correct predictions over many years?
•What is a rational choice?
•What is a Bayesian analysis?
•What are null results? How are they effected by the p-value?
•What is game theory?
•What is the prisoner’s dilemma?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.