TY - JOUR
T1 - Heritability and indirect causation
AU - SESARDIC, Neven
N1 - Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy-of-Science-Association, Nov 07-09, 2002, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - Genetic differences can lead to phenotypic differences either directly or indirectly (via causing differences in external environments, which then affect phenotype). This possibility of genetic effects being mediated by environmental influences is often used by scientists and philosophers to argue that heritability is not a very helpful causal or explanatory notion. In this paper it is shown that these criticisms are based on serious misconceptions about methods of behavior genetics.
AB - Genetic differences can lead to phenotypic differences either directly or indirectly (via causing differences in external environments, which then affect phenotype). This possibility of genetic effects being mediated by environmental influences is often used by scientists and philosophers to argue that heritability is not a very helpful causal or explanatory notion. In this paper it is shown that these criticisms are based on serious misconceptions about methods of behavior genetics.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/2129
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U2 - 10.1086/377384
DO - 10.1086/377384
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0031-8248
VL - 70
SP - 1002
EP - 1014
JO - Philosophy of Science
JF - Philosophy of Science
IS - 5
ER -