1st Edition
Intelligence, Race, And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen
By Frank Miele
Copyright 2002
255 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general... Read more
* Preface and Acknowledgments * Introduction: Jensenism and Skepticism * Prelude: The Man Behind the Ism * 1. Jensenism: A New Word in the Dictionary * 2. What Is Intelligence? The g Factor and Its Rivals * 3. Nature, Nurture, or Both? Can Heritability Cut Psychologys Gordian Knot? * 4. What Is Race? Biological Reality or Cultural Construction? * 5. From Jensenism to The Bell Curve Wars: Science, Pseudoscience, and Politics * 6. Science and Policy: Whats to Be Done? * Appendix A: Bibliography of Arthur R. JensenAppendix B: Mainstream Science on IntelligenceIndex
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Frank Miele
