by Steven Pinker
Interesting
I actually didn't finish this one- I wish there were an option for "set aside for now"- because it reminded me too much of the controversy I lived through in my college days in the late 90s. While I agree with Pinker's position (and loved his Better Angels of Our Nature ) I had no wish to relive th...
Human is not blank slate. The social scientists are wrong for so many years. The pure behaviors are also wrong. Skinner is wrong to assume that the human behaviors are shaped by the environment. Freud is wrong of course. Cognitive psychology have to revised its theory to include some form o...
"Once again a Pinker book changed my world view."The book really opened my eyes about how we learn and become who we are. I had previously just accepted the various interruptions of the the noble savage, the ghost in the machine and the blank slate. Pinker demolishes and demonstrates why those inter...
I still haven't get to this yet. But watching the lecture on this topic will give us an idea what he is go about.Steven Pinker: Blank Slate
Steven Pinker takes on the old nature/nurture question, and does an excellent job of it. Are we the products of our genes or our upbringing? Pinker tells you in the first few pages what the new consensus is: both, but genes are probably more important.He has some wonderful stories to back up the gen...
I'm fascinated with why people do what they do. This book reinterates over and over how much of human nature is determined before we are born.
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