Genes, Determinism and God

ISBN-13: 9781316506387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 392 str.

Denis Alexander

Opis

How does genetic variation impact on behavioural differences and how does this relate to free will and personal identity? Denis Alexander examines these questions.

Recenzje

'Anyone who wants to know the current state of scientific research in genetics, and its relevance to difficult issues about human development, including the vexed issue of sexual orientation, will find in this book a masterly and balanced survey. It comes from someone who is well aware of the enormous implications for theology of current research, and, in particular, its relevance to arguments about free will.' Roger Trigg, Theology

Spis treści

1. Human personhood fragmented?: nature-nurture discourse from antiquity to Galton; 2. Reifying the fragments?: nature-nurture discourse from Galton to the twenty-first century; 3. The impact of the new genetics?: how contemporary biology is changing the landscape of ideas; 4. Reshaping the matrix: integrating the human in contemporary biology; 5. Is the worm determined?: gene variation and behaviour in animals; 6. Prisoners of the genes?: understanding quantitative behavioural genetics; 7. Behavioural molecules?: understanding molecular behavioural genetics; 8. Mensa, mediocrity or meritocracy?: the genetics of intelligence, religion and politics; 9. Gay genes?: genetics and sexual orientation; 10. Not my fault?: the use of genetics in the legal system; 11. Causality, emergence and freedom?: tackling some tough philosophical questions; 12. Made in the image of God?: a conversation between genetics and theology.