Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

By
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
2018 • 576 pages

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Everybody Lies
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Wake Up
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

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Philosophy

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The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
Atheism
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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Economics

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream
Skin in the Game
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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Culture

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Caste
Fermat's last theorem
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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Science

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The World Is Flat
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
The God Delusion
Fermat's last theorem
Bad Science

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History

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Caste
Fermat's last theorem
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
The Future of Humanity

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The Raven Boys
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Screwtape Letters
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
Sweet Evil
Hard Magic
Nerd Do Well

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Side Jobs: Stories from The Dresden Files
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Child of Fire
Ready Player One
The Dream Thieves
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Unfinished

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You've Got a Book in You
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Sweet Danger
Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life
Dragon's Code
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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Politics

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Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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Philosophy

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Letters from a Stoic
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Meditations

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O Andar do Bêbado: Como o Acaso Determina Nossas Vidas
The Happiness Project
Cosmos
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Humanism

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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Learning

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

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Philosophy

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Atlas Shrugged

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Social Science

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The Triumph of Injustice : How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Empty Planet
Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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Statistics

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Adults in the Room
Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Science

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Future of Humanity
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

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Forecasting

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Non Fiction

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Bio of an Ogre
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
On the Origin of Species
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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Us History

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The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
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