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Rationality, October 2022
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The Better Angels Of Our Nature, October 2011
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The Blank Slate, September 2003
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THE BLANK SLATE
By: Steven Pinker

The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Penguin
September 2003
On Sale: August 26, 2003
528 pages
ISBN: 0142003344
EAN: 9780142003343
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Political

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.

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