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Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sociobiology Debate written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192862150
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Defenders of the Truth written by Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last twenty-five years, sociobiologists have come under continuous attack by a group of left-wing academics, who have accused the former of dubious and politically dangerous science. Many have taken the critics' charges at face value. But have the critics been right? And what are their own motivations? This book strives to set the record straight. It shows that the criticism has typically been unfair. Still, it cannot be dismissed as 'purely politically motivated'. It turnsout that the critics and the sociobiologists live in different worlds of taken-for-granted scientific and moral convictions. The conflict over sociobiology is best interpreted as a drawn-out battle about the nature of 'good science' and the social responsibility of the scientist, while it touches on such grand themes as the unity of knowledge, the nature of man, and free will and determinism. The author has stepped right into the hornet's nest of claims and counterclaims, moral concerns, metaphysical beliefs, political convictions, strawmen, red herrings, and gossip, gossip, gossip. She listens to the protagonists - but also to their colleagues. She checks with 'arbiters'. She plays the devil's advocate. And everyone is eager to tell her the truth - as they see it. The picture that emerges is a different one from the standard view of the sociobiology debate as a politically motivated nature-nurture conflict. Instead, we are confronted with a world of scientific and moral long-term agendas, for which the sociobiology debate became a useful vehicle. Behind the often nasty attacks, however, were shared Enlightenment concerns for universal truth, morality and justice. The protagonists were all defenders of the truth - it was just that everyone's truth was different. Defenders of the Truth provides a fascinating insight into the world of science. It follows the sociobiology controversy as it erupted at Harvard in 1975 until today, both in the US and the UK. But the story goes more deeply, for instance in its account of the circumstances surrounding W.D. Hamilton's famous 1964 paper on inclusive fitness, and on the connections of the sociobiology debate to the Human Genome project and the Science Wars. General readers and academics alike will find much to savour in this book.
Author : Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Defenders of the Truth written by Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the sociobiology debate and what it tells readers about the nature of science and its roll in society. "Defenders of the Truth" will appeal to all those who enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at modern science.
Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780060906276
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Sociobiology Debate written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George W Barlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000312097
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/nurture? written by George W Barlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles and brought to bear on social behavior in an unusually exciting and productive way. Joining the biologists are a small number of social scientists. But there are radically divergent views as to how the field should be delimited, and sociobiology is one of the most widely discussed fields in biology and anthropology today. The symposium on which this book is based was arranged by a biologist and an anthropologist. The participants, leaders in their fields, ably present contrasting and responsible views on current issues. This is the first collection of essays on sociobiology in which opposing views are aired. It is an exciting, timely book and an important historical document.
Author : Grace Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Sociobiology Debate and Evolution as an American Cultural Construct written by Grace Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Alcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032897
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Sociobiology written by John Alcock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Wilson's classic, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis. Denounced vehemently as an "ideology" that has justified social evils and inequalities, sociobiology has survived the assault. Twenty-five years after the field was named by Wilson, the approach he championed has successfully demonstrated its value in the study of animal behavior, including the behavior of our own species. Yet, misconceptions remain--to our disadvantage. In this straight-forward, objective approach to the sociobiology debate, noted animal behaviorist John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. He confronts the chief scientific and ideological objections head on, with a compelling analysis of case histories that involve such topics as sexual jealousy, beauty, gender difference, parent-offspring relations, and rape. In so doing, he shows that sociobiology provides the most satisfactory scientific analysis of social behavior available today. Alcock challenges the notion that sociobiology depends on genetic determinism while showing the shortcoming of competing approaches that rely on cultural or environmental determinism. He also presents the practical applications of sociobiology and the progress sociobiological research has made in the search for a more complete understanding of human activities. His reminder that "natural" behavior is not "moral" behavior should quiet opponents fearing misapplication of evolutionary theory to our species. The key misconceptions about this evolutionary field are dissected one by one as the author shows why sociobiologists have had so much success in explaining the puzzling and fascinating social behavior of nonhuman animals and humans alike.
Author : David F. Prindle
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923527
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution written by David F. Prindle and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Yudell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537999
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Race Unmasked written by Michael Yudell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. Race Unmasked revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age. Surveying the work of some of the twentieth century's most notable scientists, Race Unmasked reveals how genetics and related biological disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism. A gripping history of science and scientists, Race Unmasked elucidates the limitations of a racial worldview and throws the contours of our current and evolving understanding of human diversity into sharp relief.
Author : Robert Boyd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226069338
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Culture and the Evolutionary Process written by Robert Boyd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.
Author : Philip Kitcher
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262610490
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Vaulting Ambition written by Philip Kitcher and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical analysis of the evidence for the sociobiologists' theories that the basis of human behavior is biological and genetic
Author : Judith Moffett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Sociobiology Debate written by Judith Moffett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791446188
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Science Wars written by Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.
Author : A. Gillette
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608906
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century written by A. Gillette and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200324
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Blank Slate written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
Author : Richard Lewontin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608467273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Not in Our Genes written by Richard Lewontin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.
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ISBN 13 : 9781433100185
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Biology After the Sociobiology Debate: The sociobiology debate written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
