The Blank Slate

The Blank Slate

By
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
2002 • 528 pages

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19 books

Biology

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Adam
Why Darwin Matters
Seven Daughters of Eve
Your Inner Fish
The Double Helix
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

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35 books

Science

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Adam
The Red Queen
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest For the Origins of Behavior
Why Darwin Matters
Seven Daughters of Eve
Your Inner Fish
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations

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14 books

Philosophy

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Adam
Six Great Ideas
The Road Less Traveled
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
The Republic

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70 books

Nonfiction

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How To Win Friends and Influence People
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture Dissertation 1963, Facsimile
The Active Side of Infinity
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

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56 books

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Victoria
The House of Doctor Dee
The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Sophie's World
Robinson Crusoe
Sophie's Choice
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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89 books

Nonfic Philosophy

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On the Genealogy of Morals
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
The Birth of Tragedy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ethics
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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