The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NaturePenguin, 26 ago 2003 - 560 páginas A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense. |
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... Times Bestseller the blank slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature " Sweeping , erudite , sharply argued , and fun to PENGUIN BOOKS THE BLANK SLATE Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor. nood Time 。lco CO þiœb ] poreɛixo Front Cover.
... Times Bestseller the blank slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature " Sweeping , erudite , sharply argued , and fun to PENGUIN BOOKS THE BLANK SLATE Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor. nood Time 。lco CO þiœb ] poreɛixo Front Cover.
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... argued , fair , learned , tough , witty , humane , stimulating . I only hope that people study it care- fully before ... argument in The Blank Slate is that intellectual life in the West , and much of our social and political policy ...
... argued , fair , learned , tough , witty , humane , stimulating . I only hope that people study it care- fully before ... argument in The Blank Slate is that intellectual life in the West , and much of our social and political policy ...
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... argued , richly footnoted and fun to read . It's also highly persuasive . " -Michael Lemonick , Time " [ Pinker ] makes his main argument persuasively and with great verve .... The Blank Slate ought to be read by anybody who feels they ...
... argued , richly footnoted and fun to read . It's also highly persuasive . " -Michael Lemonick , Time " [ Pinker ] makes his main argument persuasively and with great verve .... The Blank Slate ought to be read by anybody who feels they ...
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... argue that the difference in average IQ scores between American blacks and Ameri- can whites has both genetic and environmental causes.1 The second is from The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris , who argues that children's per ...
... argue that the difference in average IQ scores between American blacks and Ameri- can whites has both genetic and environmental causes.1 The second is from The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris , who argues that children's per ...
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... argue that genes are everything and culture is nothing— no one believes that -- but to explore why the extreme position ( that culture is everything ) is so often seen as moderate , and the moderate position is seen as extreme . Nor ...
... argue that genes are everything and culture is nothing— no one believes that -- but to explore why the extreme position ( that culture is everything ) is so often seen as moderate , and the moderate position is seen as extreme . Nor ...
Índice
The Official Theory | 5 |
Silly Putty | 14 |
The Last Wall to Fall | 30 |
Culture Vultures | 59 |
The Slates Last Stand | 73 |
Fear and Loathing | 103 |
Political Scientists | 105 |
The Holy Trinity | 121 |
Out of Our Depths | 219 |
The Many Roots of Our Suffering | 241 |
The Sanctimonious Animal | 269 |
Hot Buttons | 281 |
Politics | 283 |
Violence | 306 |
Gender | 337 |
Children | 372 |
Human Nature with a Human Face | 137 |
The Fear of Inequality | 141 |
The Fear of Imperfectibility | 159 |
The Fear of Determinism | 174 |
The Fear of Nihilism | 186 |
Know Thyself | 195 |
In Touch with Reality | 197 |
The Arts | 400 |
The Voice of the Species | 421 |
Donald E Browns List of Human Universals | 435 |
NOTES | 441 |
REFERENCES | 461 |
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The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life Steven Pinker Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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