The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. It’s unfinished, and at current rates of production and apparent rates of plot resolution, never-to-be-finished (sadly, I’m feeling more and more that way about the paradigmatic rationalist fiction as well). And there are an average of slightly more than one new strains-credibility premises per book. But the characters use some serious swashbuckling rationality. Chief among the “rationality techniques” these books teach are the social ones that underpin scientific progress: honesty, transparency, etc. Which is a nice counterbalance to all the individualist rationalism that you’ll get from most of the other suggestions here.
And there’s a bit about keeping track of one’s surroundings as a rationality skill. Now that I think about it, the same thing turns up in one of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. It’s unfinished, and at current rates of production and apparent rates of plot resolution, never-to-be-finished (sadly, I’m feeling more and more that way about the paradigmatic rationalist fiction as well). And there are an average of slightly more than one new strains-credibility premises per book. But the characters use some serious swashbuckling rationality. Chief among the “rationality techniques” these books teach are the social ones that underpin scientific progress: honesty, transparency, etc. Which is a nice counterbalance to all the individualist rationalism that you’ll get from most of the other suggestions here.
And there’s a bit about keeping track of one’s surroundings as a rationality skill. Now that I think about it, the same thing turns up in one of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.