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Making sense of heritability
- Title
- Making sense of heritability / Neven Sesardic.
- Author
- Sesardić, Neven, 1949-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 267 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 05-12282
- ISBN
- 052182818X
- LCCN
- 2005002871
- 9780521828185
- OCLC
- 57669800
- Author
- Sesardić, Neven, 1949-
- Title
- Making sense of heritability / Neven Sesardic.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Series
- Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780521828185
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-12282