Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary

摘要: Much of my work has been concerned with what we could call the politics boundary. The meaning “politics” here is very broad, having to do all sorts influence and power, but especially power define privilege, include exclude, render central or peripheral. Though this may involve matters “outside” science (a fraught frontier if ever there was one) it need not. Some reasons for working on nature-nurture problem stem from concerns about publicly contested issues of, say, intelligence, race sex, most have kinds distinctions that are made in scientific draws feeds these larger disputes. Any theory carves world particular ways so legitimates some entities while leaving others beyond pale--secondary, invisible unintelligible.