The Blank Slate: The Denial of Human Nature and Modern Intellectual Life
by:
Steven Pinker (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670031511 (0670031518)
Publish date: September 30th 2002
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
Evolution
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
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