The blank slate
the modern denial of human nature
By Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà and ʻImanuʾel Loṭem
"The blank slate" is published by Viking in 2002 - New York, it has 509 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The blank slate” Metadata:
- Title: The blank slate
- Authors: Steven PinkerVictor BevineRoc Filella EscolàʻImanuʾel Loṭem
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 509
- Publisher: Viking
- Publish Date: 2002
- Publish Location: New York
“The blank slate” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Developmental psychology - Nature and nurture - Sociology - Nonfiction - History - Long Now Manual for Civilization - Hérédité et milieu - Psychobiologie - Être humain - Inné et acquis - Erfelijkheid en omgeving - Sociale evolutie - Anthropologie philosophique - Menselijke natuur - Denial (Psychology) - Behavioral Genetics - Social Behavior - Environment - Human Characteristics - Characters and characteristics - Philosophie de l'homme - Nature - Psychology - Heredity - Genetics - Human beings - Effect of environment on - Denial (Psychology.)
- People: Noam Chomsky (1928-)
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xvi, 509 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24745108M - OL477826W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 49320481
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2002022719
- ISBN-13: 9780670031511 - 9780965491730
- ISBN-10: 0670031518 - 0965491730
- All ISBNs: 0670031518 - 0965491730 - 9780670031511 - 9780965491730
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"The blank slate" Table Of Contents:
- 1- PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine
- 2- Official theory --
- 3- Silly putty --
- 4- Last wall to fall --
- 5- Culture vultures --
- 6- Slate's last stand -- -- PART II. Fear and loathing
- 7- Political scientists --
- 8- Holy trinity -- -- PART III. Human nature with a human face
- 9- Fear of inequality --
- 10- Fear of imperfectibility --
- 11- Fear of determinism --
- 12- Fear of nihilism -- -- PART IV. Know thyself
- 13- In touch with reality --
- 14- Out of our depths --
- 15- Many roots of our suffering --
- 16- Sanctimonious animal -- -- PART V. Hot buttons
- 17- Politics --
- 18- Violence --
- 19- Gender --
- 20- Children --
- 21- Arts -- -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix:
- 22- Donald E. Brown's list of human universals
"The blank slate" Description:
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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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