What to Read After The Blank Slate
Readers who loved The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Blank Slate is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Blank Slate
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are
The Extended Phenotype
Freedom Evolves
On Human Nature
The origins of virtue
The nurture assumption
How the Mind Works
The Language Instinct
The Stuff of Thought
Darwin's dangerous idea
The better angels of our nature
Moral Landscape
Consciousness explained
The Ancestor's Tale
The Red Queen
The Third Chimpanzee
Breaking the spell
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind
The Blind Watchmaker
Descartes' error
Why people believe weird things
Philosophy in the flesh
The Mating Mind
The illusion of conscious will