Word: pinkerã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Pinker??€™s talk focused on the material in his new book The Blank Slate. Currently at number 10 on the New York Times Best-seller list, the book explores the notion of human nature and its moral and political implications...
...Pinker??€™s most controversial assertions last night was that family environment has no significant effect on variations in character or personality, and that “virtually all the differences in parenting within a family can be explained as reactions to the genetic differences that the children were born with...
...Pinker??€™s book is a fascinating work of intellectual history. But it is more important as a demonstration of the immense power of cognitive science to counter armchair philosophy in debates over human behavior. Was Hobbes right in thinking mankind was fundamentally bad? Any anthropologist can tell you that human violence is universal. Is it a sign of poor taste to prefer Mozart to Schoenberg? Behavioral psychology teaches that dissonance makes babies...