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Big Ideas · Season 3 · Episode 1
Part 1 - Lectures - Dr . Steven Pinker . Are we really born a blank slate? Dr. Pinker uses his book - "The Blank Slate" - to explore the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings Part 2 - lectures- Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass will address a fundamental philosophical question underlying these latest scientific advances: Why not immortality?
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3
Episode
1
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14/Jan/2003
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Part 1 - Lectures - Dr . Steven Pinker . Are we really born a blank slate? Dr. Pinker uses his book - "The Blank Slate" - to explore the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings Part 2 - lectures- Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass will address a fundamental philosophical question underlying these latest scientific advances: Why not immortality?
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