Rationalist Movement, as stated, 2000s-present
Contemporary · stated scope
The Rationalist Movement is a contemporary intellectual and social movement organized around the application of reason, empirical evidence, and formal epistemic frameworks to belief formation and decision-making. It operates primarily in North America and online communities globally, with significant activity from the early 2000s to the present. It is principally associated with communities gathered around blogs, forums, and texts focused on cognitive biases, Bayesian reasoning, and effective decision-making methodologies.
Cluster:Pragmatic Achievement
Defined by elevated Evidence-Based Reasoning, with Achievement & Excellence, Material Aspiration, and Progress & Innovation running high alongside it. Sanctity & Transcendence and Tradition & Continuity sit low. The pattern is secular and outcome-focused: performance and evidence over inherited forms.
Full profile
All 22 dimensions in one fixed order, grouped by the contrast axis each feeds, so any two entities can be read side by side. Switch to “By axis” to group them by the axis each feeds.
Neighbors
- 1Effective Altruism, as stated, 21st c.Distance: 13Compare
- 2Amnesty International, as realized, 2015-presentDistance: 15Compare
- 3Secular Humanism, as stated, 20th c.-presentDistance: 15Compare
- 4Effective Altruism, as realized, 2009-2025Distance: 16Compare
- 5Human Rights Watch, as realized, 2015-presentDistance: 16Compare
The Three Axes (Detail)
Each bar is one pole’s pull, pointing the way it pushes the result. The dot is where the two pulls add up.