Making sense of heritability
Subtitle: how not to think about behavior genetics
By: Neven Sesardic.
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Nature and nurture.; Behavior genetics.; Genetic psychology.; Environmental psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature-nurture debate : a premature burial?; title: A convenient jingle of words; title: No fair hearing for Francis Galton; title: Heritability; title: Can monomorphic traits be heritable?; title: Philosophers at work : caveat lector!; title: A tangle of interactions : separating genetic and environmental influences; title: Two concepts of interaction; title: The rectangle analogy; title: Lewontin against ANOVA; title: Non-additivity; title: locality; title: Causal irrelevance; title: The second look at interactions; title: Lost in correlations? direct and indirect genetic causes; title: The conceptual route : decoupling "heritable" from "genetic"; title: The methodological route : G-E correlations forever elusive; title: The sociologist's fallacy; title: From individuals to groups : genetics and race; title: The "master argument"; title: Ve theories; title: X-factor theories; title: Bias, bias everywhere; title: The hereditarian strikes back; title: Genes and malleability; title: Genetic and environmental causation; title: PKU; title: Local modifiabiliy and modifiability "in principle"; title: Comparing apples and oranges; title: A clumsy attempt to appease the critics; title: Limits to egalitarianism; title: Science and sensitivity; title: Mistaken because politically motivated; title: Politically motivated because mistaken; title: Consequential fallacy; title: Double standards; title: From "is" to "ought," non-fallaciously; title: Looking into the abyss; title: From groups to individuals; title: Fair, therefore biased?