The Blank Slate

The Blank Slate By Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations. In a provocative study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world’s foremost experts on language and the mind brilliantly explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures. 50,000 first printing.