The blank slate
Subtitle: the modern denial of human nature
By: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780670031511; 9780965491730
Subjects: Hérédité et milieu; Psychobiologie; Être humain; Sociale evolutie; Erfelijkheid en omgeving; Inné et acquis; Nature and nurture; Anthropologie philosophique; Menselijke natuur
Description: In a study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.461-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine; title: Official theory --; title: Silly putty --; title: Last wall to fall --; title: Culture vultures --; title: Slate's last stand -- -- PART II. Fear and loathing; title: Political scientists --; title: Holy trinity -- -- PART III. Human nature with a human face; title: Fear of inequality --; title: Fear of imperfectibility --; title: Fear of determinism --; title: Fear of nihilism -- -- PART IV. Know thyself; title: In touch with reality --; title: Out of our depths --; title: Many roots of our suffering --; title: Sanctimonious animal -- -- PART V. Hot buttons; title: Politics --; title: Violence --; title: Gender --; title: Children --; title: Arts -- -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix:; title: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals