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Vaunella's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List - by T. Fuller Dean"

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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.

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<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>

  1. 1.
    The Roving Mind
    by Isaac Asimov

  2. 2.
    Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics
    by Dan Barker

  3. 3.
    Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers
    by Dan Barker

  4. 5.
    The Twilight of American Culture
    by Morris Berman

  5. 7.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

  6. 9.
    The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914
    by J. W. Burrow

  7. 10.
    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
    by Antonio Damasio

  8. 13.
    Climbing Mount Improbable
    by Richard Dawkins

  9. 15.

  10. 17.
    The Illusions of Postmodernism
    by Terry Eagleton

  11. 21.
    Against Deconstruction
    by John Martin Ellis

  12. 23.
    Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law
    by Daniel A. Farber

  13. 29.
    Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
    by Martin Gardner

  14. 30.
    Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
    by Martin Gardner

  15. 31.
    The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

  16. 32.
    Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher
    by Martin Gardner

  17. 33.
    The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995
    by Martin Gardner

  18. 36.
    Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age
    by A. C. Grayling

  19. 39.
    In Defense of Elitism
    by William A. Henry III

  20. 41.
    Science and Anti-Science
    by Gerald Holton

  21. 43.
    ?
    Possible and Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures)
    by Francois Jacob

  22. 44.
    ?
    Dogmatic Wisdom
    by Russell Jacoby

  23. 45.

  24. 49.
    Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
    by Philip Kitcher

  25. 54.
    What Is Atheism?: A Short Introduction
    by Douglas E. Krueger

  26. 56.
    ?

  27. 57.
    The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism
    by Paul W. Kurtz

  28. 58.
    Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm
    by Paul Kurtz

  29. 59.
    In Defense of Secular Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  30. 60.
    The Courage to Become: The Virtues of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  31. 61.
    Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism
    by Paul W. Kurtz

  32. 62.
    Embracing the Power of Humanism
    by Paul Kurtz

  33. 63.
    The Fullness of Life
    by Paul Kurtz

  34. 66.
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
    by Charles MacKay

  35. 77.
    Unintelligent Design
    by Mark Perakh

  36. 78.

  37. 83.
    Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
    by James Randi

  38. 84.
    Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction
    by Hy Ruchlis

  39. 86.

  40. 89.
    Religion and Science
    by Bertrand Russell

  41. 90.

  42. 93.
    How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
    by Michael Shermer

  43. 94.
    The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
    by Michael Shermer

  44. 96.
    Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf)
    by George H. Smith

  45. 97.
    Why Atheism?
    by George H. Smith

  46. 101.
    Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
    by Christina Hoff Sommers

  47. 102.
    Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
    by Bruce S. Thornton

  48. 104.
    Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
    by Stuart A. Vyse

  49. 106.
    Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
    by Steven Weinberg

  50. 108.
    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
    by Edward Osborne Wilson

  51. 115.
    Secular Humanist Declaration
    by Paul Kurtz

  52. 117.
    Humanist Manifesto 2000
    by Paul Kurtz

  53. 125.
    Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
    by Susan Jacoby

  54. 126.

  55. 130.

  56. 146.
    In Search of Nature
    by Edward O. Wilson

  57. 147.
    On Human Nature: Revised Edition
    by Edward O. Wilson

  58. 155.
    Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
    by Prof. Elliott Sober

  59. 156.
    ?
    Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind
    by Mortimer J. Adler

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Created by Vaunella on Mar 26, 2008.
 

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