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Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
0670031518
EAN
9780670031511
Date of Publication
2002-09-30
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Type
Hardback
Release Title
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Artist
Pinker, Steven
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Book Title
Blank Slate : the Denial of Human Nature and Modern Intellectual Life
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
9.6 in
Publication Year
2002
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.7 in
Author
Steven Pinker
Genre
Science, Psychology
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Neuropsychology, Developmental / General, Movements / Behaviorism
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
528 Pages
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670031518
ISBN-13
9780670031511
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Book Title
Blank Slate : the Denial of Human Nature and Modern Intellectual Life
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Neuropsychology, Developmental / General, Movements / Behaviorism
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Psychology
Author
Steven Pinker
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Trade
LCCN
2002-022719
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
155.2/34
Table Of Content
preface vii PART I The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine 1 Chapter 1 The Official Theory 5 Chapter 2 Silly Putty 14 Chapter 3 The Last Wall to Fall 30 Chapter 4 Culture Vultures 59 Chapter 5 The Slate's Last Stand 73PART II Fear and Loathing 103 Chapter 6 Political Scientists 105 Chapter 7 The Holy Trinity 121PART III Human Nature with a Human Face 137 Chapter 8 The Fear of Inequality 141 Chapter 9 The Fear of Imperfectibility 159 Chapter 10 The Fear of Determinism 174 Chapter 11 The Fear of Nihilism 186PART IV Know Thyself 195 Chapter 12 In Touch with Reality 197 Chapter 13 Out of Our Depths 219 Chapter 14 The Many Roots of Our Suffering 241 Chapter 15 The Sanctimonious Animal 269PART V Hot Buttons 281 Chapter 16 Politics 283 Chapter 17 Violence 306 Chapter 18 Gender 337 Chapter 19 Children 372 Chapter 20 The Arts 400PART VI The Voice of the Species 421appendix: Donald E. Brown's List of Human Universals 435 notes 441 references 461 index 491
Synopsis
Our conceptions of human nature affect everything aspect of our lives, from child-rearing to politics to morality to the arts. Yet many fear that scientific discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, and to dissolve personal responsibility. In The Blank Slate , Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature and instead have embraced three dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them. Pinker provides calm in the stormy debate by disentangling the political and moral issues from the scientific ones. He shows that equality, compassion, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about an innately organized psyche. Pinker shows that the new sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution, far from being dangerous, are complementing observations about the human condition made by millennia of artists and philosophers. All this is done in the style that earned his previous books many prizes and worldwide acclaim: irreverent wit, lucid exposition, and startling insight on matters great and small.
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BF341.P47 2002

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