Some Misconceptions of Moral Education

Some Misconceptions about Genetics

providing a succinct summary of what is known about the opportunities for psychia try that are likely to derive from genetic findings as they emerge from future re search. The research techniques used in both quantitative genetics (Rutter et a!, 1990a) and molecular genetics (Owen & McGuffin, 1993; Lander & Schork, 1994; Risch & Merikangas, 1996) have been the subject of previous non-technical ...

Some Moral Issues of Mental Health Training in Professional Education

In a very respectable sense all education is preparation for practice. In the professions of health, welfare, and education, the so-called helping professions?practice inevitably turns on the handling of human relationships. This is obviously not so in the practice of experimental scientists, technologists, philologists or even sociologists. They are not trained to work with people though it wi...

Some Common Misconceptions of Malaria

Some Common Misconceptions of Malaria

Some potential contributions of sociobiology to moral psychology and moral education

Since Darwin’s theory of evolution, subsequent studies of the theory, especially sociobiology, have had a deep and far-reaching influence on other disciplines including moral philosophy and moral psychology. For contemporary Darwinian theorists of human behavior, one of the most significant issues under debate is a question about the origin of human moral functioning. This study reviews current...