Psychology/History 138 Seeking Human Nature: The History and Science of Innateness **************************************************** SYLLABUS |
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WEEK OF: |
THEME |
MONDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
1/19 |
Course Introduction |
NO CLASS (MLK, Jr. Day) |
Course Introduction |
1/26 |
Foundations: Free Will and Determinism |
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), pp. 43-65, 85-103 (Course Reader [CR]). | G. W. Leibniz, Monadology (1714), pp. 213-25 [CR]. La Mettrie, Man a Machine (1748), pp. 3-30, 66-70 [CR]. |
2/2 |
Evolution and Morality before Darwin |
Immanuel Kant, "Universal Practical Philosophy" (1780), pp. 1-5, 37-70 [CR]. | Norton Critical Edition, Darwin, pp. 33-39, 44-49 [CR]. Gottlieb, Individual Development and Evolution, pp. 3-9 [CR]. |
2/9 |
Preformationism, Epigenesis, Struggle for Life |
Gottlieb, 19-26 [CR]. Stephen J. Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 13-28, 33-35 [CR]. Gould, Ever Since Darwin, 201-206 [CR]. |
Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population (1798), pp. 15-47 [CR]. |
2/16 |
Mr. Marx: Meet Mr. Darwin |
Karl Marx, 1844 Manuscripts [CR]. | Norton Critical Edition, Darwin, pp. 85-87 [CR]. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, pp. 95-115, 133-47 [CR]. |
2/23 |
Darwin and the Social Darwinists |
Huxley, On the Origin of Species (1863), pp. 96-120 [CR]. | Darwin, Descent of Man (1871), pp. 66-99 [CR]. Herbert Spencer, "Comparative Psychology" (1876), pp. 7-20 [CR]. |
3/2 |
Eugenics and Social Darwinism |
Keyles, In the Name of Eugenics, chap. 1 [CR]. Gottlieb, pp. 48-58 [CR]. |
Ernst Haeckel, Evolution of Man (1896), pp. 1-12, 93-119 [CR]. |
3/9 |
Instinct |
Lorenz, "Evolution of Behavior," Scientific American (1958) [CR]. Lehrman, "Critique," Quarterly Review of Biology (1953) [CR]. |
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, pp. 9-32 [CR]. |
3/16 |
NO CLASS (Spring Break) |
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3/23 |
Instinct and Germ Plasm |
Beach, "Descent of Instinct," Psychological Review (1955) [CR]. Blumberg, Basic Instinct [CR]. |
Gottlieb, pp. 59-72 [CR]. August Weismann, The Effect of External Influences upon Development (1894) [Sakai]. FIRST PAPERS DUE (Friday, March 27) |
3/30 |
Nature, Nurture, Civilization |
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, all [Huntley]. | Proctor, Racial Hygiene, pp. 10-63 [CR]. |
4/6 |
Evolutionary Psychology |
Nature and Nurture, chaps. 1-3 [CR]. Block, "How Heritability Misleads about Race" 56 (1995): 99-128 [CR]. Bouchard et al., "Sources of Human Psychological Differences," Science, 250 (1990): 223-28 [CR]. |
The Selfish Gene, chaps. 1-4 [CR]. The Blank Slate, chaps. 1-3 [CR]. Cosmides, et al. (2009) [CR]. |
4/13 |
Genetics |
Keller, Century of the Gene, pp. 1-72 [Huntley]. | Keller, Century of the Gene, pp. 73-150 [Huntley]. |
4/20 |
Cold War and Anti-Communism |
Hayek, Road to Serfdom, pp. 57-111 [Huntley]. | Hayek, Road to Serfdom, pp. 124-80, 237-38 [Huntley]. |
4/27 |
Evolution and Development |
Lewontin, Triple Helix, pp. 3-68 [Huntley]. | Lewontin, Triple Helix, pp. 71-129 [Huntley]. |
5/4 |
Science, Politics, and Society |
Ever since Darwin, pp. 207-67 [CR]. | FINAL PAPERS DUE |
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