Neven Sesardic

Making Sense of Heritability (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, 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. He critically examines the view - very widely accepted by scientists, social scientists and philosophers of science - that heritability estimates have no causal implications and are devoid of any interest. In a series of clearly written chapters he introduces the reader to the problems and subjects the arguments to close philosophical scrutiny. His conclusion is that anti-heritability arguments are based on conceptual confusions and misunderstandings of behavioural genetics. His book is a fresh and compelling intervention in a very contentious debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511131387
• Artikelnr.: 38185112

Autorenporträt

Neven Sesardic is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His areas of specialisation are philosophy of biology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature-nurture debate: a premature burial?
2. A tangle of interactions: separating genetic and environmental influences
3. Lost in correlations? Direct and indirect genetic causes
4. From individuals to groups: genetics and race
5. Genes and malleability
6. Science and sensitivity
7. Conclusions.