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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... intelligence . He certainly did believe that the mind of man could escape " the blind control of a deter- ministic world . " Wallace became a spiritualist and spent the later years of his career searching for a way to communicate with ...
... intelligence . He certainly did believe that the mind of man could escape " the blind control of a deter- ministic world . " Wallace became a spiritualist and spent the later years of his career searching for a way to communicate with ...
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... intelligence . " 3 Of course there is no new thing under the sun , and the computational the- ory of mind was foreshadowed by Hobbes when he described mental activity as tiny motions and wrote that " reasoning is but reckoning . " Three ...
... intelligence . " 3 Of course there is no new thing under the sun , and the computational the- ory of mind was foreshadowed by Hobbes when he described mental activity as tiny motions and wrote that " reasoning is but reckoning . " Three ...
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... intelligence will ever duplicate the human mind , or that computers are conscious in the sense of having first - person subjective experience . But it does suggest that reasoning , intelligence , imagination , and creativity are forms ...
... intelligence will ever duplicate the human mind , or that computers are conscious in the sense of having first - person subjective experience . But it does suggest that reasoning , intelligence , imagination , and creativity are forms ...
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... intelligence , " " plasticity , " or " adaptiveness . " But as Leibniz remarked , to do so is to " [ save ap- pearances ] by fabricating faculties or occult qualities , . . . and fancying them to be like little demons or imps which can ...
... intelligence , " " plasticity , " or " adaptiveness . " But as Leibniz remarked , to do so is to " [ save ap- pearances ] by fabricating faculties or occult qualities , . . . and fancying them to be like little demons or imps which can ...
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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 |
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