Continuing my series of old essays and talks about human nature that I have not previously published on Pandaemonium, this is a review of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate and John Gray’s Straw Dogs. It was first published in Prospect, October 2002. Review of The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker and Straw Dogs by John Gray, Prospect, October 2002 The psychologist Geoff Miller has called it a ‘paradigm shift’: the restoration of human nature into discussions of human behaviour, political […]

Categories: Human, Science & Technology • Tags: antihumanism, darwinism, evolutionary psychology, human agency, human nature, humanism, john gray, steven pinker