Rationality

"[The author] rejects the cynical clich? that humans are simply an irrational species--cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty . . . Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress"--Google Books.