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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.
The notion is central to Lockean empiricism; it serves as the starting point for Locke's subsequent explication (in Book II) of simple ideas and complex ideas. As understood by Locke, tabula rasa meant that the mind of the individual was born blank, and it also emphasized the freedom of individuals to author their own soul. Individuals are free ...
Two other books, How the Mind Works (1997) and The Blank Slate (2002), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature with many mental faculties that are genetically adaptive (Pinker is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism). Another major theme in Pinker's theories ...
5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 26 at The Palm Beach Book Store, 215 Royal Poinciana Way, Palm Beach Tata will present his latest novel, where he draws on his own military experience to craft a timely thriller.
Blank Slate Books (BSB) was founded in 2008 by Kenny Penman and partner James Hamilton. [5] Penman was inspired by Fantagraphics Books of Seattle, WA, to publish books in the United Kingdom that would do for artists in Britain what Fantagraphics was doing in the USA, championing independent, alternative creators who were not working in superhero or other ‘mainstream’ commercial comics genres.
The book is described as the "most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat Party apologia to date," but features roughly 260 blank pages with only the book's title printed atop each.
Jenny Slate’s new book is almost here, and it’s a meditation on motherhood like you’ve never read one before.. Lifeform, out Tuesday, Oct. 22 from Little, Brown and Company, is a collection ...
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