Books Discussed on the Dissenter
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How Madness Shaped History: An Eccentric Array of Maniacal Rulers, Raving Narcissists, and Psychotic Visionaries 3.37 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Nietzschean Self Moral Psychology Agency and the Unconscious
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Paul Katsafanas
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals
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Paul Katsafanas
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 5. 
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice
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Gregg D. Caruso
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
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David Benatar
3.70 avg rating — 156 ratings 8. 
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
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Michael Shermer
3.88 avg rating — 602 ratings 9. 
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 11. 
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work
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John Danaher
3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
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Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 237 ratings 14. 
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 
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A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
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Rachel Kleinfeld
4.11 avg rating — 131 ratings 
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Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon 4.05 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
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Susan Pinker
3.78 avg rating — 747 ratings 23. 
The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap
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Susan Pinker
3.84 avg rating — 447 ratings 
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction
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Henry T. Greely
3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings 29. 
Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide
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Martin Daly
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 30. 
The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning
by:
Dan P. McAdams
4.21 avg rating — 116 ratings 31. 
Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism (Philosophy, Technology and Society)
by:
Sven Nyholm
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature
by:
Iris Berent
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
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Alex Rosenberg
3.61 avg rating — 591 ratings 38. 
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
by:
Alex Rosenberg
3.32 avg rating — 224 ratings 
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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
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Sarah E. Hill
4.04 avg rating — 11,281 ratings 42. 
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Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
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Cecilia Heyes
3.77 avg rating — 179 ratings 44. 
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
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David Wootton
3.88 avg rating — 884 ratings 45. 
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
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Pascal Boyer
3.91 avg rating — 379 ratings 46. 
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code 3.83 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
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Garett Jones
3.56 avg rating — 331 ratings 
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Evolution of Vulnerability: Implications for Sex Differences in Health and Development
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David C. Geary
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 52. 
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
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Eric Smith
4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings 53. 
The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
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Herbert Gintis
3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings 54. 
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
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Hugo Mercier
3.89 avg rating — 441 ratings 55. 
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry 3.94 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
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A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
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Randy Thornhill
3.49 avg rating — 226 ratings 57. 
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating — 3,971 ratings 60. 
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Matthew Cobb
4.12 avg rating — 1,010 ratings 
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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Michael Strevens
3.75 avg rating — 805 ratings 63. 
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
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Eric Kaufmann
3.71 avg rating — 393 ratings 64. 
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From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by:
David Haig
3.65 avg rating — 77 ratings 68. 
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve 4.25 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy 4.23 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
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Kevin Simler
3.97 avg rating — 8,134 ratings 73. 
Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
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Héctor A. García
4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings 74. 
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives
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Michele Gelfand
3.72 avg rating — 948 ratings 76. 
Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin's Guide to Living a Richer Life
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Glenn Geher
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 77. 
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
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David M. Buss
4.09 avg rating — 858 ratings