The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker.
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.
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New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine
- Official theory
- Silly putty
- Last wall to fall
- Culture vultures
- Slate's last stand
- PART II. Fear and loathing
- Political scientists
- Holy trinity
- PART III. Human nature with a human face
- Fear of inequality
- Fear of imperfectibility
- Fear of determinism
- Fear of nihilism
- PART IV. Know thyself
- In touch with reality
- Out of our depths
- Many roots of our suffering
- Sanctimonious animal
- PART V. Hot buttons
- Politics
- Violence
- Gender
- Children
- Arts
- PART VI. Voice of the species
- Appendix: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals.