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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... looks and fashion from spelling bees and academic prizes ; that men think the goal of sex is an orgasm because of the way they were socialized . The problem is not just that these claims are pre- posterous but that the writers did not ...
... looks and fashion from spelling bees and academic prizes ; that men think the goal of sex is an orgasm because of the way they were socialized . The problem is not just that these claims are pre- posterous but that the writers did not ...
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... look silly . Waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe , including many Jews , were filling the cities and climbing the social ladder . African Americans had taken advantage of the new " Negro col- leges , " had migrated ...
... look silly . Waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe , including many Jews , were filling the cities and climbing the social ladder . African Americans had taken advantage of the new " Negro col- leges , " had migrated ...
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... look for an associative bond in the physiology of neurons and synapses , ignoring other kinds of computation that might implement learning in the brain.17 ( For ex- ample , storing the value of a variable in the brain , as in " x = 3 ...
... look for an associative bond in the physiology of neurons and synapses , ignoring other kinds of computation that might implement learning in the brain.17 ( For ex- ample , storing the value of a variable in the brain , as in " x = 3 ...
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... look at something with my eyes and then they begin quivering , those little tails ... and when they quiver , then an image appears ... it doesn't appear at once , but an instant , a second , passes ... and then something like a moment ...
... look at something with my eyes and then they begin quivering , those little tails ... and when they quiver , then an image appears ... it doesn't appear at once , but an instant , a second , passes ... and then something like a moment ...
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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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