Our conceptions of human nature affect every aspect of our lives, from the way we raise our children to the political movements we embrace. Yet just as science is bringing us into a golden age of understanding human nature, many people are hostile to the very idea. They fear that discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, to dissolve personal responsibility, and to strip life of meaning and purpose. In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: the Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), the Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society),...
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2013-08-28
Betyg 
Här har vi en annan som i likhet med Dennett och Dawkins missförstår språket. Han tror som Chomsky att det går att studera "som vilket organ som helst". Däri ligger själva missförståndet. Språket är omöjligt att separera från omvärlden och oss själva. Vi är det mer än har det.
2012-09-27
Betyg 
0-10% miljöpåverkan
40-50% gener
50% saker utom påverkan men inte gener (tex slumpmässiga händelser i fosterutv)
