Making Sense of Heritability

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A fresh compelling 2005 intervention in a very contentious heritability debate. Zusammenfassung 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. His book is a fresh and compelling intervention in a very contentious debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Neven Sesardic, Neven (Lingnan University Sesardic
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521828185
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82818-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology