From: Dan Fabulich (dfabulich@warpmail.net)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 20:29:30 MDT
Anand wrote:
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> Pinker's The Blank Slate has a US release date of September 26. The
> following is the jacket description:
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> (http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/slate.html)
It's interesting to see to what extent this message has taken over
Pinker's message in _How The Mind Works_. The premise of _The Blank
Slate_ started out as a precautionary disclaimer in _How The Mind Works_,
but by the time I saw him lecture at Yale, the whole of his lecture was
taken up by this message. It looks like now he's been moved to write a
whole book on this message.
This is a pity, because what he has to say about human differences (they
exist) and discrimination (it's *still* wrong and unjustified) is so
obvious; it's a sad statement on the current picture of academia that his
message is so controversial.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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