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Subject(s)

• Nature and nurture [Browse]
• Behavior genetics [Browse]
• Genetic psychology [Browse]
• Environmental psychology [Browse]

Series

Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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?

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ISBN

052182818X

LCCN

2005002871

OCLC

57669800

International Article Number

9780521828185

RCP

C - O

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