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The blank slate

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature

By Steven Pinker

2 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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. Differences in personality or achievement, whether seen among races, ethnic groups, sexes or individuals, are routinely explained away as due not to differences in innate constitution but differences in experience.

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9780140276053

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The blank slate

Format

Paperback

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