Denis Alexander

Genes, Determinism and God

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781316506387
• ISBN-10: 131650638X
• Artikelnr.: 48400943

Autorenporträt

Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, originally founded at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics. He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. Dr Alexander writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. From 1992 to 2013 he was Editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief and currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. His Creation or Evolution: do we have to choose? proved particularly popular. He gave the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University in 2012 and these were published by CUP in 2017 under the title Genes, Determinism and God. In April 2018 Monarch published his Is There Purpose in Biology?

Inhaltsangabe

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.