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Vaunella'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:
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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
 
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
 
17. The Illusions of Postmodernism
by Terry Eagleton
 
18.
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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.
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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.
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The Possible and the Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)
by Francois Jacob
 
44.
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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
 
51. Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
by Philip Kitcher
 
52. Ufos: The Public Deceived
by Philip J. Klass
 
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Created by Vaunella on Mar 26, 2008.