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Abstract: Behavior genetics holds out the hope of unbiased study of the biological bases of human behavior. Without more rigorous reflection on behavioral concepts, however, behavior genetics will succeed only in reinforcing social biases. This point is illustrated with reference to studies on aggression, sexual orientation, and gender differences.
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About Dr. Longino
Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
Helen Longino is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford [University]. Her teaching and research interests are in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Science As Social Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990), The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2001), and many articles in the philosophy of science, feminist philosophy and epistemology. Among her many co-edited volumes is Scientific Pluralism, forthcoming as Vol. XIX of the Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science.
She is currently completing a book length comparative analysis of four approaches in the sciences of human behavior, focusing on research on aggression and research on sexual orientation. This analysis includes both an examination of the logical structures and interrelations of these approaches and study of their social and cultural reception and uptake.
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