Behaving: What's Genetic, What's Not, and Why Should We Care?

by Kenneth F. Schaffner

Behaving presents an overview of the recent history and methodology of behavioral genetics and psychiatric genetics, informed by a philosophical perspective. Kenneth F. Schaffner addresses a wide range of issues, including genetic reductionism and determinism, "free will," and quantitative and molecular genetics. The latter covers newer genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that have produced a paradigm shift in the subject, and generated the problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195171403
• ISBN13: 9780195171402
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"