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Human Nature: More than a Blank Slate

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Discussing Steven Pinker's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Discussed in this episode: The dominant views of human nature (The Blank Slate, The Judeo-Christian Theory, The Noble Savage, The Ghost in the Machine, and Behaviorism), radical feminism, dangers of a Blank Slate Theory of human nature, apprehension for abandoning The Blank Slate Theory (Possibility for inequality, determinism, and nihilism), lines of evidence from cognitive science, genetics and neuroscience that disprove the Blank Slate Theory, and critical opinions about the book.

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