A review by igivemyselfthecreeps
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
3.0
Finally finished! We'll sort of. I skipped a few chapters in the middle. 4 to be precise. Just didn't seem like they were terribly important for my exam, and frankly I got kind of bored with the book after a while.
Pinker is a good writer. He's smart. He's read a lot. Though he also seems a tad pretentious. Not everything in the world is the result of a blank slate approach to human nature. Some things, sure, but not everything.
I dunno. He is totally right about a lot of things, but not everything, and he always presents stuff in such a way that if 1% of something is heritable, he wins, cause everyone else apparently denies genes and such.
Anyway. Not a bad book. Better than some science books I'm sure.
Pinker is a good writer. He's smart. He's read a lot. Though he also seems a tad pretentious. Not everything in the world is the result of a blank slate approach to human nature. Some things, sure, but not everything.
I dunno. He is totally right about a lot of things, but not everything, and he always presents stuff in such a way that if 1% of something is heritable, he wins, cause everyone else apparently denies genes and such.
Anyway. Not a bad book. Better than some science books I'm sure.