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WHAT COMES NATURALLY.('The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature')(Book Review)
"The new sciences of human nature." Well, why not? The old sciences of human nature didn't have such a fabulous track record. They gave us segregated drinking fountains, "invented spelling," and the glass ceiling--all consequences of scientific theories about the way human beings really are. Possibly, there is a lesson there, which is that the sciences of human nature tend to validate the practices and preferences of whatever regime happens to be sponsoring them. In totalitarian regimes, dissidence is treated as a mental illness. In apartheid regimes, interracial contact is treated as unnatural. In free-market regimes, self-interest is treated as hardwired. Maybe this is ...
- Who's afraid of the new science? Human nature.("The Blank Slate: The Modern...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 21, 2002 700+ words
...Pinker rarely loses his cool. "The Blank Slate" ought to be read by anybody who feels...alleged appeal of three myths: the blank slate, the noble savage and the ghost in...hold all three at once, and only the blank slate--an idea famously expressed by John...
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.(Book Review)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology Hageman, Carlin F. September 1, 2004 700+ words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature AUTHOR: Steven...20.00 In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker...the concept of human nature and its emotional...notion of the blank slate is wrong; human nature is not malleable...
- What Is a Man?(The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: National Review DANIELS, ANTHONY November 11, 2002 700+ words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven...the idea of human nature has come from...sees man as a blank slate upon which...consequences of the blank-slate hypothesis...biologically based human nature is also...
- `The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature' by Steven Pinker;...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ramsey, Bruce October 16, 2002 700+ words
...he says, is not a blank slate like a memory chip...keeping score. "The Blank Slate" is an attack on what...species." It is not a blank slate but a slate with a face...that might be called human nature. When Pinker starts...
- The soul of Steven Pinker. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard December 1, 2002 700+ words
...war with the very idea of human nature. Everything is determined...with a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking). Pinker is telegenic...that proponents of the blank slate approach are sometimes prone...
- What's our nature? 'Blank Slate' argues against nurture as primary shaper.(LIFE...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 21, 2002 700+ words
...selling new book, "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature," lays out some controversial...behavior. With "The Blank Slate," Mr. Pinker has sought...three fallacies about human nature: * The "blank slate" - the idea that people...
- Biology vs. the Blank Slate: evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker...
- Magazine article from: Reason Bailey, Ronald Gillespie, Nick October 1, 2002 700+ words
...book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking...morality. The Blank Slate, which combines...discourse about human nature for the last...book, The Blank Slate? Steven Pinker...concept of human nature and biological...
- Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'.
- News wire article from: United Press International October 30, 2002 700+ words
...Pinker's bestseller "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" is one of the more intellectually...engineering. All three of these blank-slate fallacies, by the way...in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept...
