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Historical reason / by Ortega y Gasset, José,1883-1955.(CARDINAL)139199;
Includes bibliographical references.1290L
Subjects: Rationalism.;
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Age of reason : being an investigation of time and fabulous theology. by Paine, Thomas,1737-1809.(CARDINAL)139133;
Subjects: Rationalism.;
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The age of reason : being an investigation of true and fabulous theology / by Paine, Thomas,1737-1809.;
Subjects: Rationalism.;
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Rationality [sound recording] : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / by Pinker, Steven,1954-author.(CARDINAL)332272; Morey, Arthur,narrator.(CARDINAL)780477;
Read by Arthur Morey.Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding₆and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical clich ťhat humans are simply irrational, cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. We actually think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we₂ve discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. These tools are not a standard part of our education, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book, until now.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Critical thinking.; Practical reason.; Choice (Psychology);
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Rationality [large print] : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / by Pinker, Steven,1954-(CARDINAL)332272;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-544) and indexes."In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that sequenced the genome and detected the Big Bang produce so much fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and "post-truth" rhetoric? A big part of Rationality is to inspire an intuitive understanding of the benchmarks of rationality, so you can understand the basics of logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, the optimal ways to adjust our beliefs and commit to decisions with uncertain evidence, and the yardsticks for making rational choices alone and with others"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Critical thinking.; Practical reason.; Choice (Psychology);
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Swine rations / by Luce, William G.(CARDINAL)164418; North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.(CARDINAL)164866;
Subjects: Feeds.; Swine; Pork industry and trade.;
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The rationing : a novel / by Wheelan, Charles J.,author.(CARDINAL)266649;
A political satire follows a haphazard government effort to quell an ensuing crisis when the world's supply of a key pharmaceutical ingredient is depleted at the beginning of a mysterious pathogen outbreak.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Politics;
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The Rationing / by Wheelan, Charles J.,author.(CARDINAL)266649;
Political backstabbing, rank hypocrisy, and dastardly deception reign in this delightfully entertaining political satire, sure to lift one's spirits far above the national stage.America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike.Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative. Working together, just barely, are a savvy but preoccupied president; a Speaker more interested in jockeying for position - and a potential presidential bid - than attending to the minutiae of disease control; a patriotic majority leader unable to differentiate a virus from a bacterium; a strategist with brilliant analytical abilities but abominable people skills; and, improbably, our narrator, a low-level scientist with the National Institutes of Health who happens to be the world's leading expert in lurking viruses.Little goes according to plan during the three weeks necessary to replenish the stocks of Dormigen. Some Americans will get the life-saving drug and others will not, and nations with their own supply soon offer aid - but for a price. China senses blood and a geopolitical victory, presenting a laundry list of demands that ranges from complete domination of the South China Sea to additional parking spaces at the UN, while India claims it can save the day for the US.
Subjects: Fiction.; Medical fiction.; Political fiction.;
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Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / by Pinker, Steven,1954-author.(CARDINAL)332272;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-388) and indexes."Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's 'new favorite book of all time'). 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, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker a cognitive scientist and rational optimist argues, cannot be the whole picture. Hunter-gatherers--our ancestors and contemporaries--are not nervous rabbits but cerebral problem-solvers. 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 enriched our lives. Indeed, if humans were fundamentally irrational, how did they discover the benchmarks for rationality against which humans fall short? The topic could not be more timely. In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that sequenced the genome and detected the Big Bang produce so much fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and 'post-truth' rhetoric? A big part of Rationality is to explain these tools--to inspire an intuitive understanding of the benchmarks of rationality, so you can understand the basics of logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, the optimal ways to adjust our beliefs and commit to decisions with uncertain evidence, and the yardsticks for making rational choices alone and with others. Rationality matters. As the world reels from foolish choices made in the past and dreads a future that may be shaped by senseless choices in the present, rationality may be the most important asset that citizens and influencers command. Steven Pinker, the great defender of human progress, having documented how the world is not falling apart, now shows how we can enhance rationality in our lives and in the public sphere. Rationality is the perfect toolkit to seize our own fates"--Massachusetts Book Awards Must-Read Book (Nonfiction), 2022
Subjects: Informational works.; Critical thinking.; Practical reason.; Choice (Psychology);
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River rations : recipes & recollections of rural living.
Subjects: Cookbooks; Cooking;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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