Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• What works in reducing community violence: A meta-review and field study for the Northern Triangle. — Abt, T., & Winship, C.
• Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. — Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A.
• Democracy for realists: Why elections do not produce responsive governments. — Achens, C. H., & Bartels, L. M.
• Pathfinders: The golden age of Arabic science. — Al-Khalili, J.
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers. — Appiah, K. A.
• The honor code: How moral revolutions happen. — Appiah, K. A.
• Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions — Ariely, D.
• Four laws that drive the universe. — Atkins, P.
• In gods we trust: The evolutionary landscape of supernatural agency. — Atran, S.
• The end of doom: Environmental renewal in the 21st century. — The end of doom: Environmental renewal in the 21st century.
• Wild hope: On the front lines of conservation success. — Balmford, A.
• Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. — Banerjee, A. V., & Duflo, E.
• The flight of the intellectuals. — Berman, P.
• Prescription for the planet: The painless remedy for our energy and environmental crises. — Blees, T.
• Climate of hope: How cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet. — Bloomberg, M., & Pope, C.
• Superintelligence: Paths, dangers, strategies. — Bostrom, N.
• Evolution, literature, and film: A reader. — Boyd, B., Carroll, J., & Gottschall, J., eds.
• Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. — Boyer, Pascal.
• By the bomb’s early light: American thought and culture at the dawn of the Atomic Age. — Boyer, Paul.
• Whole Earth discipline: Why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands, and geoengineering are necessary. — Brand, S.
• Civilization and capitalism, 15th–18th century — Braudel, F.
• Utopia for realists: The case for a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek. — Bregman, R.
• Moral realism and the foundations of ethics. — Brink, D. O.
• What to think about machines that think? Today’s leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence. — Brockman, J., ed.
• Human universals. — Brown, D. E.
• The new humanists: Science at the edge. — Brockman, J., ed.
• The Second Machine Age: Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. — Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A.
• Goddess of the market: Ayn Rand and the American right. — Burns, J.
• The myth of the rational voter: Why democracies choose bad policies. — Caplan, B.
• The intellectuals and the masses: Pride and prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880–1939. — Carey, J.
• The big picture: On the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself. — Carroll, S. M.
• The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory. — Chalmers, D. J.
• Why civil resistance works: The strategic logic of nonviolent conflict. — Chenoweth, E., & Stephan, M. J.
• Modern tyrants. — Chirot, D.
• A farewell to alms: A brief economic history of the world. — A farewell to alms: A brief economic history of the world.
• The bottom billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it — Collier, P.
• Examining an elephant: Globalisation and the lower middle class of the rich world. — Corlett, A.
• The complacent class: The self-defeating quest for the American dream. — Cowen, T.
• Power to save the world: The truth about nuclear energy. — Cravens, G.
• The selfish gene — Dawkins, R.
• The blind watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design. — Dawkins, R.
• Intelligence: A very short introduction. — Deary, I. J.
• The Great Escape: Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. — Deaton, A.
• The big ratchet: How humanity thrives in the face of natural crisis. — DeFries, R.
• Feeding everyone no matter what: Managing food security after global catastrophe. — Denkenberger, D., & Pearce, J.
• Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. — Diamond, J. M.
• Galileo’s middle finger: Heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science. — Dreger, A.
• The art instinct: Beauty, pleasure, and human evolution. — Dutton, D.
• White man’s burden: Why the West’s ef orts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. — Easterly, W.
• The moral case for fossil fuels. — Epstein, A.
• Good without God: What a billion nonreligious people do believe. — Epstein, G.
• Don’t sleep, there are snakes: Life and language in the Amazonian jungle. — Everett, D.
• Plague time: The new germ theory of disease. — Ewald, P.
• Triumph of the city: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier. — Glaeser, E. L.
• Secular joblessness. — Glaeser, E. L.
• Humanity: A moral history of the twentieth century. — Glover, J.
• The puzzle of peace: The evolution of peace in the international system. — Goertz, G., Diehl, P. F., & Balas, A.
• The improving state of the world: Why we’re living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet. — Goklany, I. M.
• The race between education and technology. — Goldin, C., & Katz, L. F.
• Winning the war on war: The surprising decline in armed conflict worldwide. — Goldstein, J. S.
• The storytelling animal: How stories make us human. — Gottschall, J.
• The literary animal: Evolution and the nature of narrative. — Gottschall, J., & Wilson, D. S., eds.
• Moral tribes: Emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them. — Greene, J.
• Thick moralities, thin politics: Social integration across communities of belief. — Gregg, B.
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• The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. — Haidt, J.
• The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. — Haidt, J.
• Racing the enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan. — Hasegawa, T.
• Show me the evidence: Obama’s fight for rigor and results in social policy. — Haskins, R., & Margolis, G.
• The rhetoric of reaction: Perversity, futility, jeopardy. — Hirschman, A. O.
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• Radical enlightenment: Philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650– 1750. — Israel, J. I.
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• Thinking, fast and slow. — Kahneman, D.
• An answer to the question: What is enlightenment? — Kant, I.
• What technology wants. — Kelly, K
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• A universe from nothing: Why there is something rather than nothing. — Krauss, L. M.
• The vital question: Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life. — Lane, N.
• The myth of martyrdom. — Lankford, A.
• The rise and fall of violent crime in America. — Latzer, B.
• Humanism: A very short introduction. — Law, S.
• Happiness: Lessons from a new science. — Layard, R.
• Race and slavery in the Middle East: An historical enquiry. — Lewis, B.
• The undoing project: A friendship that changed our minds. — Lewis, M.
• The art of tracking: The origin of science. — Liebenberg, L.
• The origin of science: On the evolutionary roots of science and its implications for self-education and citizen science. — Liebenberg, L.
• The shipwrecked mind: On political reaction. — Lilla, M.
• The reckless mind: Intellectuals in politics. — Lilla, M.
• Programming the universe: A quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos. — Lloyd, S.
• Unlearning liberty: Campus censorship and the end of American debate. — Lukianoff, G.
• Freedom from speech. — Lukianoff, G.
• The great convergence: Asia, the West, and the logic of one world. — Mahbubani, K.
• The soul machine: The invention of the modern mind. — Makari, G.
• The Hadza: Hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. — Marlowe, F.
• Beyond revenge: The evolution of the forgiveness instinct. — McCullough, M. E.
• Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. — McKay, C.
• Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French counter-Enlightenment and the making of modernity. — McMahon, D. M.
• The enigma of reason. — Mercier, H., & Sperber, D.
• Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization. — Milanović, B.
• Retreat from doomsday: The obsolescence of major war. — Mueller, J.
• Capitalism, democracy, and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery. — Mueller, J.
• The remnants of war. — Mueller, J.
• Overblown: How politicians and the terrorism industry inflate national security threats, and why we believe them. — Mueller, J.
• Atomic obsession: Nuclear alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda. — Mueller, J.
• Mind and cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false. — Nagel, T.
• History of the idea of progress. — Nisbet, R.
• Progress: Ten reasons to look forward to the future — Nisbet, R.
• Big gods: How religion transformed cooperation and conflict. — Norenzayan, A.
• The climate casino: Risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world — Nordhaus, W.
• On what matters. — Parfit, D.
• Music, language, and the brain. — Patel, A.
• Slavery and social death. — Patterson, O.
• A history of force: Exploring the worldwide movement against habits of coercion, bloodshed, and mayhem. — Payne, J. L.
• The language instinct. — Pinker, S.
• How the mind works. — Pinker, S.
• Words and rules: The ingredients of language. — Pinker, S.
• The blank slate: The modern denial of human nature. — Pinker, S.
• The stuf of thought: Language as a window into human nature. — Pinker, S.
• The open society and its enemies. — Popper, K.
• The creation of the modern world: The untold story of the British Enlightenment. — Porter, R.
• John F. Kennedy and the missile gap. — Preble, C.
• American grace: How religion divides and unites us. — Putnam, R. D., & Campbell, D. E.
• The elements of moral philosophy. — Rachels, J., & Rachels, S.
• The great surge: The ascent of the developing world. — Radelet, S.
• The rational optimist: How prosperity evolves. — Ridley, M.
• Intelligence: All that matters. — Ritchie, S.
• The case for rational optimism. — Robinson, F. R.
• Risk: A practical guide for deciding what’s really safe and what’s really dangerous in the world around you. — Ropeik, D., & Gray, G.
• PC, M.D.: How political correctness is corrupting medicine. — Satel, S. L.
• Beware false prophets: Equality, the good society and the spirit level. — Saunders, P.
• The great leveler: Violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century. — Scheidel, W.
• The strategy of conflict. — Schelling, T. C.
• The censor’s hand: The misregulation of human-subject research. — Schneider, C. E.
• Why government fails so often: And how it can do better. — Schuck, P. H.
• Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition failed. — Scott, J. C.
• Miracle cures: Saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief. — Scott, R. A.
• Nuclear weapons and coercive diplomacy — Sechser, T. S., & Fuhrmann, M.
• Development as freedom. — Sen, A.
• On ethics and economics. — Sen, A.
• The argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian history, culture and identity. — Sen, A.
• The idea of justice. — Sen, A.
• When reason goes on holiday: Philosophers in politics. — Sesardić, N.
• The moral arc: How science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom. — Shermer, M.
• Heavens on earth: The scientific search for the afterlife, immortality, and utopia. — Shermer, M.
• Evidence for hope: Making human rights work in the 21st century. — Sikkink, K.
• The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail—but some don’t. — Silver, N.
• The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty. — Singer, P.
• The expanding circle: Ethics and sociobiology. — Singer, P.
• The knowledge illusion: Why we never think alone. — Sloman, S., & Fernbach, P.
• Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. — D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky, eds.,
• The spirit level delusion: Fact-checking the left’s new theory of everything. — Snowdon, C.
• Democracy and political ignorance: Why smaller government is smarter — Somin, I.
• A conflict of visions: Ideological origins of political struggles. — Sowell, T.
• Knowledge and decisions. — Sowell, T.
• Race and culture: A world view. — Sowell, T.
• Conquests and cultures: An international history. — Sowell, T.
• Wealth, poverty, and politics: An international perspective. — Sowell, T.
• The fallacy of fine-tuning: Why the universe is not designed for us. — Stenger, V. J.
• Happiness is increasing in many countries—but why? — Stokes, B.
• Secular stagnation: Facts, causes, and cures. — C. Teulings & R. Baldwin, eds.,
• Irrationality: The enemy within. — Sutherland, S.
• The next America: Boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown. — Taylor, P.
• Golden Rules and Silver Rules of humanity: Universal wisdom of civilization. — Terry, Q. C.
• Superforecasting: The art and science of prediction. — Tetlock, P. E., & Gardner, D.
• The creative destruction of medicine: How the digital revolution will create better health care. — Topol, E.
• The inequality trap: Fighting capitalism instead of poverty. — Watson, W.
• Consilience: The unity of knowledge. — Wilson, E. O.
• Proust and the squid: The story and science of the reading brain. — Wolf, M.
• The seduction of unreason: The intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to postmodernism. — Wolin, R.
• Catching fire: How cooking made us human. — Wrangham, R. W.
• Global catastrophic risks. — N. Bostrom & M. Ćirković, eds.,
• Pricing the priceless child: The changing social value of children — Zelizer, V. A.