TY  - GEN
AU  - Pinker, Steven 
TI  - Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
SN  - 9780140276053
U1  - 155.234 PIN 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Nature and Nurture
KW  - Developmental Psychology
KW  - Characters and Characteristics
N2  - "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 doctrine that he mind has no innate traits--a doctrine embraced 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."
ER  -