The Enigma of Reason — Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• A cognitive theory of consciousness. — Baars, B. J.
• The shape of thought: How mental adaptations evolve. — Barrett, H. C.
• The grammar of society: The nature and dynamics of social norms. — Bicchieri, C.
• Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology. — Billig, M.
• Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. — Boyer, P.
• This explains everything: Deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works. — Brockman, J.,
• Origins of objectivity. — Burge, T
• The architecture of the mind: Massive modularity and the flexibility of thought. — Carruthers, P.
• Harvard and the Unabomber: The education of an American terrorist — Chase, A.
• The number sense: How the mind creates mathematics. — Dehaene, S.
• Content and consciousness. — Dennett, D. C.
• Why we talk: The evolutionary origins of language. — Dessalles, J.-L.
• Knowledge and the flow of information. — Dretske, F.
• Relationship thinking: Agency, enchrony, and human sociality. — Enfield, N. J.
• Rationality and reasoning. — Evans, J. St. B. T., and D. E. Over.
• Newton: The making of genius. — Fara, P.
• The philosophy of information. — Floridi, L.
• Perfect rigor: A genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century. — Gessen, M.
• Moore’s paradox: New essays on belief, rationality, and the first person. — Green, M. S., and J. N. Williams.
• Trusting what you’re told: How children learn from others — Harris, P. L.
• Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture. — Hirschfeld, L. A.
• Bury the chains: Prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire’s slaves. — Hochschild, A.
• Groupthink, — Janis, I. L.
• How we reason. — Johnson-Laird
• Among the Truthers: A journey through America’s growing conspiracist underground. — Kay, J.
• The structure of scientific revolutions — Kuhn, T.
• The Delphi method: Techniques and applications. — Linstone, H. A., and M. Turof
• Thinking and reasoning: An introduction to the psychology of reason, judgment and decision making — Manktelow, K.
• The epigenesis of mind: Essays on biology and cognition. — S. Carey and R. Gelman
• Helmholtz: From enlightenment to neuroscience. — Meulders, M.
• White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice. — Millikan, R. G.
• Language, thought, and other biological categories: New foundations for realism. — Millikan, R. G.
• Ways of thinking of Eastern peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan. — Nakamura, H.
• Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe. — Nicastro, N.
• Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action — Ostrom, E.
• Inevitable illusions: How mistakes of reason rule our minds — Piattelli-Palmarini, M.
• The language instinct. — Pinker, S.
• Conjectures and refutations. — Popper, K. R.
• Epistemic luck. — Pritchard, D.
• An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense. — Reid, T.
• The psychology of proof: Deductive reasoning in human thinking. — Rips, L. J.
• Objectivity, relativism, and truth: Philosophical papers. — Rorty, R.
• Speaking our minds: Why human communication is dif ferent, and how language evolved to make it special. — Scott-Phillips, T. C.
• The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail—but some don’t — Silver, N.
• Evolution of the social contract. — Skyrms, B.
• Signals: Evolution, learning, and information. — Skyrms, B.
• Philosophy of biology. — Sober, E.
• Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective. — Sperber, D.
• The robot’s rebellion: Finding meaning in the age of Darwin. — Stanovich, K. E.
• Thought in a hostile world: The evolution of human cognition. — Sterelny, K.
• Religion and the decline of magic. — Thomas, K.
• The double helix. — Watson, J. D.
• The origin and evolution of intelligence. — Scheibel and J. W. Schopf
• Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates. — Wootton, D.
• The invention of science: A new history of the scientific revolution. — Wootton, D.
• The philosophers’ quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the limits of human understanding. — Zaretsky, R., and J. T. Scott.
• Biology of turtles: From structures to strategies of life. — Wyneken, J., M. H. Godfrey, and V. Bels,