The Blank Slate

Pinker against the doctrine that the mind has no innate structure. First published in the United States by Viking Penguin in 2002; PUBLISHED IN PENGUIN BOOKS 2003 — this copy. Copyright Steven Pinker 2002; ISBN 0 14 20.0334 4 paperback; set in Minion. Dedicated \u201cTo Don, Judy, Leda, and John\u201d. The permissions page is characteristically wide: Paul Simon lyrics, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim\u2019s \u201cGee, Officer Krupke\u201d, Jim Croce, a Roger Shepard diagram and the Adelson checker-shadow illusion.