Ravenclaw's Rationality

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 4.39 avg rating — 18,064 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,684 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,648 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,970,184 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,066 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating — 129,370 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,228 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 3.81 avg rating — 75,635 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.96 avg rating — 119,255 ratings
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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings 4.31 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Sophie’s World
Sophie’s World 3.97 avg rating — 275,149 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained 3.90 avg rating — 8,569 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics 4.61 avg rating — 8,001 ratings
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Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness 3.81 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes 3.55 avg rating — 8,453 ratings
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home 4.03 avg rating — 35,751 ratings
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Godel's Proof
Godel's Proof 4.19 avg rating — 5,500 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating — 101,040 ratings
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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality 4.40 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book) 4.13 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,730 ratings
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rationality: From AI to Zombies 4.32 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed
Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed
by: Gary Kemp
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Logical Positivism
Logical Positivism 3.93 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic 3.75 avg rating — 4,177 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements
by: Euclid
4.32 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind 4.04 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature 3.91 avg rating — 11,145 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts 4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not 3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth 4.20 avg rating — 301,826 ratings
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern 3.71 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth 4.05 avg rating — 20,348 ratings
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The Secret of NIMH
The Secret of NIMH 4.33 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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Unsong
Unsong 4.40 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
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Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology
Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology 4.23 avg rating — 53 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo 4.17 avg rating — 15,842 ratings
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Freedom Evolves
Freedom Evolves 3.82 avg rating — 2,858 ratings
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Think Like a Freak
Think Like a Freak 3.86 avg rating — 55,660 ratings
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Mortal Questions
Mortal Questions 4.04 avg rating — 850 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,225 ratings
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Principia Mathematica, Vol 1
Principia Mathematica, Vol 1 4.25 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,217 ratings
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind 3.95 avg rating — 863 ratings
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers 4.01 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain 3.77 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel 3.99 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge
Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge 3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty 4.12 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 4.25 avg rating — 809,905 ratings
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How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day 3.83 avg rating — 6,574 ratings
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Manifest Logic
Manifest Logic 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 241,472 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.14 avg rating — 205,128 ratings
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World 4.17 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Quantum Computing Since Democritus 4.15 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 3.87 avg rating — 372,554 ratings
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How to Solve It : A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
How to Solve It : A New Aspect of Mathematical Method 4.13 avg rating — 5,047 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,516 ratings
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The Analects
The Analects
by: Confucius
3.81 avg rating — 23,510 ratings
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…And I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes
…And I Show You How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes 4.43 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self 4.05 avg rating — 29,447 ratings
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts 4.18 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny 3.98 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age 3.96 avg rating — 611 ratings
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The Master Tutor: A Guidebook for More Effective Tutoring
The Master Tutor: A Guidebook for More Effective Tutoring 2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science 4.41 avg rating — 648 ratings
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A Concise Introduction to Logic
A Concise Introduction to Logic 3.84 avg rating — 656 ratings
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating — 21,777 ratings
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity 4.06 avg rating — 27,073 ratings
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An Introduction to Decision Theory
An Introduction to Decision Theory 3.78 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative 3.96 avg rating — 324,500 ratings
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 3.92 avg rating — 29,508 ratings
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life 4.08 avg rating — 40,111 ratings
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age 3.83 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 103,209 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I 4.14 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Book with No Pictures
The Book with No Pictures 4.35 avg rating — 30,492 ratings
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The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker 4.62 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 29,538 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 4.29 avg rating — 78,419 ratings
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
by: Mem Fox
4.11 avg rating — 2,904 ratings
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9) 4.12 avg rating — 29,575 ratings
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The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten 3.87 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,923 ratings
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) 4.27 avg rating — 68,767 ratings
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The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking
The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking 3.92 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Wordplay
Wordplay 3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Asimov's Elephant : Science at Its Sharpest from Radio National's Ockham's Razor
Asimov's Elephant : Science at Its Sharpest from Radio National's Ockham's Razor 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Pedant's Return Why things that you think are wrong are right
The Pedant's Return Why things that you think are wrong are right 2.92 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Ig Nobel Prizes
The Ig Nobel Prizes 3.48 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Mr. Clever (Mr. Men, #37)
Mr. Clever (Mr. Men, #37) 3.88 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 484,810 ratings
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4.39 avg rating — 22,162 ratings
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Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 29,684 ratings
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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 24,886 ratings
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Dicing with Dragons
Dicing with Dragons 3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Thinking Clearly: A Guide to Critical Reasoning
Thinking Clearly: A Guide to Critical Reasoning 3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic
Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic 3.61 avg rating — 193 ratings
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