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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... explained my plans for this book . At first glance the reaction is not unreasonable . Maybe na- ture versus nurture ... explanation has won out to the exclusion of the other , we have not done a sufficiently good job of presenting one ...
... explained my plans for this book . At first glance the reaction is not unreasonable . Maybe na- ture versus nurture ... explanation has won out to the exclusion of the other , we have not done a sufficiently good job of presenting one ...
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... explaining human thought and behavior , the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to ... explanation is correct : which language you speak is an obvious example , and differences among races and ethnic ...
... explaining human thought and behavior , the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to ... explanation is correct : which language you speak is an obvious example , and differences among races and ethnic ...
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... explain all thought , feeling , and behavior with a few simple mecha- nisms of learning . The social sciences have sought to explain all customs and social arrangements as a product of the socialization of children by the sur- rounding ...
... explain all thought , feeling , and behavior with a few simple mecha- nisms of learning . The social sciences have sought to explain all customs and social arrangements as a product of the socialization of children by the sur- rounding ...
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... explained in mechanical terms . Light sets our nerves and brain in motion , and that is what it means to see . The ... explains Descartes's dilemma : When Galileo showed that his methods of scientific discovery were competent to provide ...
... explained in mechanical terms . Light sets our nerves and brain in motion , and that is what it means to see . The ... explains Descartes's dilemma : When Galileo showed that his methods of scientific discovery were competent to provide ...
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... explain behavior in mecha- nistic terms are commonly denounced as " reductionist " or " determinist . " The denouncers rarely know exactly what they mean by those words , but everyone knows they refer to something bad . The dichotomy ...
... explain behavior in mecha- nistic terms are commonly denounced as " reductionist " or " determinist . " The denouncers rarely know exactly what they mean by those words , but everyone knows they refer to something bad . The dichotomy ...
Índice
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14 | |
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 |
INDEX | 491 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature in Modern Intellectual Life Steven Pinker Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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