TY - BOOK AU - Pinker,Steven TI - The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature SN - 0670031518 (alk. paper) AV - BF341 .P47 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Nature and nurture KW - Hr��?�d��?�it ��?�et milieu N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-489) and index; PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine --; Official theory --; Silly putty --; Last wall to fall --; Culture vultures --; Slate's last stand --; PART II. Fear and loathing --; Political scientists --; Holy trinity --; PART III. Human nature with a human face --; Fear of inequality --; Fear of imperfectibility --; Fear of determinism --; Fear of nihilism --; PART IV. Know thyself --; In touch with reality --; Out of our depths --; Many roots of our suffering --; Sanctimonious animal --; PART V. Hot buttons --; Politics --; Violence --; Gender --; Children --; Arts --; PART VI. Voice of the species --; Appendix; Donald E. Brown's list of human universals ER -