This volume brings together a group of essays by leading philosophers of science, ethicists, and legal scholars, commissioned for an important and controversial conference on genetics and crime. The essays address basic conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues raised by genetic research on criminal behavior but largely ignored in the public debate. They explore the complexities in tracing any genetic influence on criminal, violent, or antisocial behavior, the varieties of interpretation to which evidence of such influences is subject, and the relevance of such influences to the moral and legal appraisal of criminal conduct. The volume provides a critical overview of the assumptions, methods, and findings of recent behavioral genetics.
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In this volume a group of leading philosophers address some of the basic conceptual, methodological and ethical issues raised by genetic research into criminal behavior, issues that have been largely ignored in the public debate on this subject. Advancing public discussion while clarifying the debate about genetic research and criminal behavior, this volume explains scientific controversies about behavioral genetics in lucid, non-technical terms.The volume will be of particular value to philosophers concerned with applied ethics (especially bioethics), behavioral geneticists, psychologists, legal theorists, and criminologists.
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degeneracy program, genetic predisposition evidence, predisposition claims, current genetic differences, affective architecture, standing social arrangements, heritability research, genes for violence, most other populations, strong genetic influence, behavioral mutants, quantitative geneticists, human behavioral genetics, ordinary classification, normal agency, heritability studies, looping effect, phenotypic variance, reproductive prospects, antisocial character, male sexual orientation, genetic plan, rational bargaining, reactive attitudes, indirect causation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cambridge University Press, Robert Wachbroit, David Wasserman, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, American Psychiatric Association, Academic Press, Cornell University Press, Marcia Baron, Scientific American, Jorge Garcia, Michael Slote, Nicomachean Ethics, Alan Strudler, Allan Gibbard, Gene Combination Alpha, Patricia Greenspan, San Francisco, American Journal of Human Genetics, Archives of General Psychiatry, Basic Books, Harvard University Press, Kenneth Schaffner New!
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degeneracy program, genetic predisposition evidence, predisposition claims, current genetic differences, affective architecture, standing social arrangements, heritability research, genes for violence, most other populations, strong genetic influence, behavioral mutants, quantitative geneticists, human behavioral genetics, ordinary classification, normal agency, heritability studies, looping effect, phenotypic variance, reproductive prospects, antisocial character, male sexual orientation, genetic plan, rational bargaining, reactive attitudes, indirect causation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cambridge University Press, Robert Wachbroit, David Wasserman, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, American Psychiatric Association, Academic Press, Cornell University Press, Marcia Baron, Scientific American, Jorge Garcia, Michael Slote, Nicomachean Ethics, Alan Strudler, Allan Gibbard, Gene Combination Alpha, Patricia Greenspan, San Francisco, American Journal of Human Genetics, Archives of General Psychiatry, Basic Books, Harvard University Press, Kenneth Schaffner New!
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- The Ethics of Policing (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by John Kleinig in Front Matter
- Free Will by Craig Watson on page 259
- Alvin Plantinga (Profiles) by H. Tomberlin on page 297
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- Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation by Erik Parens on 7 pages
- Making Sense of Heritability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Neven Sesardic in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics by Walter Glannon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (In-Formation) by Nikolas Rose in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Americans with Disabilities by Leslie Francis in Back Matter
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