List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Behaving: Its Nature and Nurture (Part 1)
2. Behaving: Its Nature and Nurture (Part 2)
3. Genes, Behavior, and the Developmentalist Challenge: One
Process, Indivisible?
4. What's a Worm Got to Do with It? - Model Organisms and Deep
Homology
5. Reduction: The Cheshire Cat Problem and a Return to Roots
6. Human Behavioral Genetics: Personality Studies, Depression,
Gene-Environment Interplay, and the Revolutionary Results of
GWAS
7. Schizophrenia Genetics: Experimental and Theoretical
Approaches
8. What's Genetic, What's Not, and Why Should We Care?
9. Summary and Conclusion
Index
Kenneth F. Schaffner (Ph.D., Columbia, 1967; M.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986) is Distinguished University Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research on the foundations and methodology of behavioral and psychiatric genetics has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
"...is human behavior genetically determined? Few people have been
thinking about that question for as long, or with as much devotion
to the scientific facts and philosophical subtleties, as the
philosopher of science, Kenneth Schaffner. In his magisterial,
wise, and succinct new book, Behaving, he disentangles its two
separate but related components...Schaffner provides a balanced
account while never losing sight of what has been and will be
achieved
by using genetics to explain medical, behavioral, and psychiatric
traits--especially if integrated with insights at myriad other
levels of analysis, from the genetic and neuronal to the
psychological and
social." -- Erik Parens for Quillette.com
"a thorough, in-depth discussion of contemporary scientific inquiry
into behavior and the philosophical implications of recent
discoveries in the field." -- Metapsychology Online Reviews
"The philosophical considerations and history of ideas at the heart
of this book offer valuable and illuminating context for readers of
contemporary genetic studies of behavioral phenotypes. This is a
thoughtful, multifaceted, and nuanced work. In sum, Schaffner
offers a brilliantly written and useful volume for learning and
teaching about behavior genetics, its assumptions, methods, and
findings." -- PsycCRITIQUES
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