| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index. |
| Contents |
The nature-nurture debate : a premature burial? -- A convenient jingle of words -- No fair hearing for Francis Galton -- Heritability 101 -- Can monomorphic traits be heritable? -- Philosophers at work : caveat lector! -- A tangle of interactions : separating genetic and environmental influences -- Two concepts of interaction -- The rectangle analogy -- Lewontin against ANOVA -- Non-additivity -- Locality -- Causal irrelevance -- The second look at interactions -- Lost in correlations? : direct and indirect genetic causes -- The conceptual route : a Pickwickian notion? -- The methodological route : tracing the paths of causality -- The sociologist's fallacy -- From individuals to groups : genetics and race -- The "master argument" -- VE theories -- X-factor theories -- Unfair to facts -- The hereditarian strikes back -- Genes and malleability -- Genetic and environmental causation -- PKU -- Local modifiabiliy and modifiability "in principle" -- Comparing apples and oranges -- A clumsy attempt to appease the critics -- Limits to egalitarianism -- Science and sensitivity -- Mistaken because politically motivated -- Politically motivated because mistaken -- Consequential fallacy -- Double standards -- From "is" to "ought," non-fallaciously -- Looking into the abyss -- From groups to individuals -- Fair, therefore biased? |
| Summary |
Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. His book is a fresh, original and compelling intervention in a very contentious debate. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature and nurture.
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Nature and nurture. |
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Behavior genetics.
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Behavior genetics. |
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Genetic psychology.
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Genetic psychology. |
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Environmental psychology.
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Environmental psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sesardić, Neven, 1949- Making sense of heritability. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 052182818X (DLC) 2005002871 (OCoLC)57669800 |
| ISBN |
0511132743 (electronic book) |
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9780511132742 (electronic book) |
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0511132204 |
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9780511132209 |
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052182818X (hardback) |
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9780521828185 (hardback) |
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