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Making Hay with Straw Men

机译:用稻草人做干草

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The natureurture controversy is perennially frustrating. Both parties to the debate, or at any rate their more clearheaded representatives, are completely committed to the view that humans develop as a consequence of countless interactions between their biological endowment and their environment. Yet each side portrays the other as benightedly monistic―as either thoroughgoing biological determinists or, in the phrase Steven Pinker adopts for the title of the present work, devotees of the blank slate. So we have two competing dichotomies―the reasonable interactionist versus the biological determinist, and the reasonable interactionist versus the blank slate. Dividing by the common term, we have the battle of the straw men. Of course, to present the debate in either of these ways is to determine its outcome, and the aim of Pinker's book is to convince us that reason lies with the enemies of the blank slate. For those readers like myself who start with the conviction that biological determinism is more of a threat to reason than is the blank slate, there is not much in this book that is likely to change minds.
机译:长期以来,有关自然/养育的争论令人沮丧。辩论的双方,或者无论如何,他们更为头脑清醒的代表,都完全致力于这样一种观点,即人类是由于其生物biological赋与环境之间无数相互作用而发展起来的。然而,每一面都将另一面描绘成一夜之间的一元论者,要么是彻底的生物学决定论者,要么用史蒂文·平克(Steven Pinker)为当前作品的标题所用的一句话,是空白石板的奉献者。因此,我们有两个相互对立的二分法:合理的相互作用论者与生物学的决定论者,以及合理的相互作用论者与空白论者。除以通用术语,我们有稻草人的战斗。当然,以上述两种方式中的任何一种来进行辩论都是为了确定辩论的结果,而平克的书的目的是使我们相信,原因在于空白局面的敌人。对于那些像我这样的读者而言,他们一开始就认为生物确定性比空白更是对理性的威胁,因此本书中没有太多改变主意的东西。

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  • 来源
    《American Scientist》 |2003年第1期|p.69-72|共4页
  • 作者

    John Dupre;

  • 作者单位

    Department of Sociology, University of Exeter in England;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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