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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... input from di- verse fields , great writing and humor . " -Tom Paskal , The Montreal Gazette " A delightfully provocative read ... A constantly dynamic , if tacit , exchange be- tween the author and his readers . " -Patrick Watson , The ...
... input from di- verse fields , great writing and humor . " -Tom Paskal , The Montreal Gazette " A delightfully provocative read ... A constantly dynamic , if tacit , exchange be- tween the author and his readers . " -Patrick Watson , The ...
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... input / output - and presumably , this extra cortex is strategically placed in the brain to subserve just those functions that differentiate people from rats or even apes .... But there must be another aspect to the difference between ...
... input / output - and presumably , this extra cortex is strategically placed in the brain to subserve just those functions that differentiate people from rats or even apes .... But there must be another aspect to the difference between ...
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... input and output processing can be fobbed off onto computational mod- ules , but you still need a human user with the capacity for judgment , reflec- tion , and creativity . But according to the computational theory of mind , these ...
... input and output processing can be fobbed off onto computational mod- ules , but you still need a human user with the capacity for judgment , reflec- tion , and creativity . But according to the computational theory of mind , these ...
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... input.25 But those at both poles agree that the brain is not a uniform meatloaf . Still another layer of information - processing systems can be found in the af- fect programs , that is , the systems for motivation and emotion . The ...
... input.25 But those at both poles agree that the brain is not a uniform meatloaf . Still another layer of information - processing systems can be found in the af- fect programs , that is , the systems for motivation and emotion . The ...
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Índice
5 | |
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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