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Author Pinker, Steven, 1954-

Title The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2002.

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 Moore Stacks  BF341 .P47 2002    Available  ---
Description xvi, 509 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-489) and index.
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
Subject Nature and nurture.
Nature and nurture.
Hérédité et milieu.
ISBN 0670031518 alkaline paper