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The blank slate : the denial of human nature in modern intellectual life

What is the truth about human nature? Steven Pinker argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature.

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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."
  • "What is the truth about human nature? Steven Pinker argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature."@en
  • "Pleidooi op basis van psychologisch, etnografisch en genetisch onderzoek voor het bestaan van een universele menselijke natuur."
  • "In "The Blank Slate", Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and it's moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century, denies our common humanity and our individual perferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts."@en
  • "In The Blank Slate , Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense."
  • "In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature. We are prepared for sex, aggression and jealousy - and also love, compassion and reason. Violence is not just a product of society; male and female minds are different; the genes we give our children shape them more than our parenting practices. To acknowledge our nature, Pinker shows, is not to condone inequality or callousness, but ultimately to understand the very foundations of humanity."
  • "In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense."@en

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  • "Podręczniki [Typ publikacji]"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "The blank slate : the denial of human nature in modern intellectual life"@en
  • "Ett oskrivet blad och andra myter om människans natur"
  • "הלוח החלק"
  • "The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature"@en
  • "The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature"
  • "Ett oskrivet blad : och andra myter om människans natur"@sv
  • "The Blank Slate : The Modern Denial of Human Nature"
  • "The blank slate : the modern denial of humen nature"
  • "The Blank Slate"@en
  • "The blank slate the modern denial of human nature"
  • "The blank slate the modern denial of human nature"@en
  • "Tabula rasa : perchè non è vero che gli uomini nascono tutti uguali"@it
  • "La Tabla rasa : la negación moderna de la naturaleza humana"
  • "The Blank slate : the modern denial of human nature"
  • "Tábula rasa : a negação contemporânea da natureza humana"@pt
  • "Tábula rasa : a negação contemporânea da natureza humana"
  • "Boş sayfa : insan doğasının modern inkarı"@tr
  • "La tabla rasa : la negación moderna de la naturaleza humana"
  • "La tabla rasa : la negación moderna de la naturaleza humana"@es
  • "[Extract from] The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature"@en
  • "The blank slate"
  • "The blank slate"@en
  • "Tabula rasa : perché non è vero che gli uomini nascono tutti uguali"
  • "Das unbeschriebene Blatt : die moderne Leugnung der menschlichen Natur"
  • "Comprendre la nature humaine"
  • "ha-Luaḥ ha-ḥalaḳ : ʻal hakḥashat ṭivʻo ha-mulad shel ha-adam be-yamenu"
  • "Het onbeschreven blad : de moderne ontkenning van de menselijke natuur"
  • "Tabula rasa : spory o naturę ludzką"@pl

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