Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash
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Description: A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
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| Page title: | Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash |
| Keywords: | Human Nature Review,book reviews,steven pinker, blank slate, tabula rasa, noble savage, ghost in the machine, nature, nurture, nature vs. nurture, nature vs nurture, human nature |
| Description: | First, a confession of sorts: For some time now, I’ve been suspicious of anyone who comes to evolution some time after their primary training. After all, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s observation about the British people and the RAF, never have so many said so much about something they understand so little! All too often, born-again evolutionists tend to conform to a bimodal distribution, either disparaging evolutionary insights – often without understanding them, or even trying to do so - or starry-eyed true believers, whose enthusiasm exceeds their common sense. And so, I was initially leery of Steven Pinker, trained as he was in visual cognition and the psychology of language. His 1994 book, The Language Instinct, pretty much dispelled these concerns, sufficiently so that I included a selection from it in my reader, Ideas of Human Nature (1998). Next, How the Mind Works (1997) caused me to switch from judgementalism to being an eager recipient of Pinker’s lovely insights and turns of phrase. |
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