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The Mismeasure of Man
And yet the idea of innate limits--of biology as destiny--dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jun 17th, 1996
- Pages: 448
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised, Expand - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.48in - 0.89in - 0.88lb
- EAN: 9780393314250
- Categories: • Life Sciences - Biological Diversity• General
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@GhawinRiver @RottenInDenmark @jfrickuga JFC it's been 40 years since Stephen Jay Gould demolished the concept of IQ in "The Mismeasure of Man" and yet the zombie concept just won't. go. away.
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This was Stephen Jay Gould’s basic moral objection to the junk science of race and IQ, too, in The Mismeasure of Man — an objection apt to be dismissed by current race science enthusiasts as “emotional”, but one which deepens (not replaces) a substantive methodological critique.
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@lisaquestions @anderssandberg I see also that Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" came out in 1981 and I had certainly read it, as an Oxford philosophy undergraduate, some years before 1995. (Not assigned as reading for my course, but an obviously interesting book from the perspective of Phil of Sci)
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gone to Blue Sky. same user name.
@GhawinRiver @RottenInDenmark @jfrickuga JFC it's been 40 years since Stephen Jay Gould demolished the concept of IQ in "The Mismeasure of Man" and yet the zombie concept just won't. go. away.
Science & projects in early modern Britain/Ireland/Atlantic; books https://t.co/6SZWSk1EuC & https://t.co/NaUdi6aUBv; https://t.co/XYe3VOJbIH; views mine; he/him
This was Stephen Jay Gould’s basic moral objection to the junk science of race and IQ, too, in The Mismeasure of Man — an objection apt to be dismissed by current race science enthusiasts as “emotional”, but one which deepens (not replaces) a substantive methodological critique.
