Latest papers

[When genetics play with fate: a conference with Boris Cyrulnik]

How Darwinian reductionism refutes genetic determinism.

[The standard criminal concept of guilt between free will and neurobiological determinism (I)].

[The normative concept of guilt in criminal law between freedom of will and neurobiological determinism]

Behavioural genetics: why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancement.

Genetic modification and genetic determinism.

A sequence of 'factishes': the media-metaphorical knowledge dynamics structuring the German press coverage of the human genome.

Nature versus nurture: eugenics.

Firing up the nature/nurture controversy: bioethics and genetic determinism.

Reproductive cloning and a (kind of) genetic fallacy.

Experimental analysis of nature-nurture interactions.

In genes we trust: the biological component of psychological essentialism and its relationship to mechanisms of motivated social cognition.

Germ-line enhancement of humans and non-humans.

Genotype, phenotype and cancer: role of low penetrance genes and environment in tumour susceptibility.

Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence.

Sustained attention-deficit confirmed in euthymic bipolar disorder but not in first-degree relatives of bipolar patients or euthymic unipolar depression.

Imaging or imagining? A neuroethics challenge informed by genetics.

Behavioral genetics and the punishment of crime.

Human life: genetic or social construction?

Genetic discrimination in health insurance--comprehensive legal solutions for a (not so) special problem?