Fortune's Favor: Implications of Behavioral Genetic Research for Distributive and Retributive Justice | pharden

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Last March, I developed a terrible sore throat – eating felt like swallowing crushed glass, and my lymph nodes were tender to the touch. For various reasons (laziness, moving for sabbatical and then moving back, relying only on my OB-GYN during the many years I…

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The Science and Ethics of Group Differences in Intelligence: Part One Winegard, Winegard, Boutwell, and Shackelford (henceforth referred to as WWBS) have written a rejoinder to the Vox article that I co-authored with Eric Turkheimer and Richard Nisbett. They begin by describing a few lines of…

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The anonymous @SilverVVulpes replied to my previous blog post on Twitter with this thought: “I’d be interested in any philosopher of science that argues genes=inherent merit instead of luck. Position confuses the hell out of me.” @SilverVVulpes describes himself as “hereditarian left” in his Twitter bio, which…

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Against my better judgment, I’m going to begin this blog by talking about Charles Murray. Is there any academic more widely reviled by mainstream social scientists than Murray? The Bell Curve was published in 1994: the first term of the Bill Clinton presidency was barely…

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