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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... traits of a sex or ethnic group is simply irrational . THE BLANK SLATE is often accompanied by two other doctrines , which have also attained a sacred status in modern intellectual life . My label for the first of the two is commonly ...
... traits of a sex or ethnic group is simply irrational . THE BLANK SLATE is often accompanied by two other doctrines , which have also attained a sacred status in modern intellectual life . My label for the first of the two is commonly ...
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... trait to an entire people without any evidence , then advances two theories- that phonology reflects personality , and that warm climates breed laziness— without invoking even correlational data , let alone proof of causation . Even on ...
... trait to an entire people without any evidence , then advances two theories- that phonology reflects personality , and that warm climates breed laziness— without invoking even correlational data , let alone proof of causation . Even on ...
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... traits are unchangeable , which could weaken support for social programs . TWENTIETH - CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity , the Ghost in the Ma- chine . The ...
... traits are unchangeable , which could weaken support for social programs . TWENTIETH - CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity , the Ghost in the Ma- chine . The ...
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... traits of a culture . But beginning in the 1950s with the cognitive revolution , all that changed . It is now possible to make sense of mental processes and even to study them in the lab . And with a firmer grasp on the concept of mind ...
... traits of a culture . But beginning in the 1950s with the cognitive revolution , all that changed . It is now possible to make sense of mental processes and even to study them in the lab . And with a firmer grasp on the concept of mind ...
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... traits . The mind is modular , with many parts cooperating to generate a train of thought or an organized action . It has distinct information - processing sys- tems for filtering out distractions , learning skills , controlling the ...
... traits . The mind is modular , with many parts cooperating to generate a train of thought or an organized action . It has distinct information - processing sys- tems for filtering out distractions , learning skills , controlling the ...
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 |
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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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