Making Sense of Heritability

Name: Making Sense of Heritability
Price: 82.88 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521828185

ISBN-10: 052182818X

ISBN-13: 9780521828185

Edition: 2005

Authors: Neven Sesardic

List price: $95.99

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $82.88

Marketplace

3 new & used from $85.00

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

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 and subjects the arguments to close philosophical scrutiny. His conclusion is that anti-heritability arguments are based on conceptual confusions and misunderstandings of behavioral genetics.

Book details

List price: $95.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David Hudson is a writer and photographer specializing in field sports and has written a number of books on shooting and gundogs. He lives in southern Scotland.



List of figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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 modifiability 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?



Conclusion


References


Index