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Published
Penguin, August 2003
ISBN
9780140276053
Format
Softcover, 560 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 12.8cm × 3.2cm

The Blank Slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature by

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What is the truth about human nature? Are we each born a blank slate upon which experience is written? 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. This work argues otherwise.

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