The Blank slate : the denial of human nature in modern intellectual life / Steven Pinker.
Record details
- ISBN: 0670031518
- ISBN: 9780670031511
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2002.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine 1 -- Chapter 1 Official Theory 5 -- Chapter 2 Silly Putty 14 -- Chapter 3 Last Wall to Fall 30 -- Chapter 4 Culture Vultures 59 -- Chapter 5 Slate's Last Stand 73 -- Part II Fear and Loathing 103 -- Chapter 6 Political Scientists 105 -- Chapter 7 Holy Trinity 121 -- Part III Human Nature with a Human Face 137 -- Chapter 8 Fear of Inequality 141 -- Chapter 9 Fear of Imperfectibility 159 -- Chapter 10 Fear of Determinism 174 -- Chapter 11 Fear of Nihilism 186 -- Part IV Know Thyself 195 -- Chapter 12 In Touch with Reality 197 -- Chapter 13 Out of Our Depths 219 -- Chapter 14 Many Roots of Our Suffering 241 -- Chapter 15 Sanctimonious Animal 269 -- Part V Hot Buttons 281 -- Chapter 16 Politics 283 -- Chapter 17 Violence 306 -- Chapter 18 Gender 337 -- Chapter 19 Children 372 -- Chapter 20 Arts 400 -- Part VI Voice of the Species 421 -- Appendix Donald E. Brown's List of Human Universals 435. |
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| Subject: | Nature and nurture. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Bladen Main Branch | 155.234 PIN (Text) | 30441100263086 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
