Lists of Bests: Neil Moakley's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List

Send to Printer Neil Moakley's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List - by T. Fuller Dean" A collection of books originally found as a collection of Listmania! recommendations on Amazon.com, by another user. I am creating the list on listsofbests.com for my own reference, but please feel free to make use of it. The original lists are here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/AT4JXYYYFYGAY/ref=cm_lm_fullview_name/104-3957281-7859943">T. Fuller Dean’s Listmania</a>
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	1.		The Roving Mind by Isaac Asimov
	2.		Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics by Dan Barker
	3.		Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers by Dan Barker
	4.		Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist by Dan Barker
	5.		The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
	6.		Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives by Richard Bernstein
	7.		The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
	8.		Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition) by Neil Browne
	9.		The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914 by J. W. Burrow
	10.		Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
	11.		The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
	12.		River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
	13.		Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
	14.		Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
	15.		A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
	16.		The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus by Earl Doherty
	17.		The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
	18.	?	The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism by Niles Eldridge
	19.		The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
	20.		Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
	21.		Against Deconstruction by John M. Ellis
	22.		The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America (American Political Thought) by Richard J. Ellis
	23.		Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber
	24.		Science Confronts the Paranormal
	25.	?	Paranormal Borderlands of Science by Kendrick Frazier
	26.		Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief
	27.		The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
	28.		Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma
	29.		Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
	30.		Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science) by Martin Gardner
	31.		The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher by Martin Gardner
	32.		Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher by Martin Gardner
	33.		The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 by Martin Gardner
	34.		How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
	35.		Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism
	36.		Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
	37.		Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross
	38.		The Flight from Science and Reason (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
	39.		In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry
	40.		Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: A Critical Examination of the Evidence by Terence Hines
	41.		Science and Anti-Science by Gerald Holton
	42.		Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey
	43.	?	The Possible and the Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures) by Francois Jacob
	44.	?	Dogmatic Wisdom by Russell Jacoby
	45.		The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe by Russell Jacoby
	46.		Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety by Wendy Kaminer
	47.		Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball
	48.		Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education by Roger Kimball
	49.		Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher
	50.		Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions by Philip Kitcher
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Neil Moakley's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List - by T. Fuller Dean"