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Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator. [1]

57 relations: Academic boycott of Israel, Adaptationism, Alzheimer's disease, Atheism, BBC Radio 4, Biochemical Society, Biochemistry, Biology, British Neuroscience Association, British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, Canongate Books, E. O. Wilson, Edge Foundation, Inc., Edinburgh Medal, Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, Gresham College, Heritability, Hilary Rose (sociologist), Humanists UK, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, International Journal of Epidemiology, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli-occupied territories, King's College London, King's College, Cambridge, Leon Kamin, List of British Jewish scientists, London, London Review of Books, Mad in America, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Memory, Neuroscience, New College, Oxford, New Scientist, Not in Our Genes, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Open University, Orthodox Judaism, Pluto Press, Popular science, Richard Dawkins, Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, Sociobiology, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, ..., Steven Poole, Straw man, The Guardian, The Lancet, The Moral Maze, The Selfish Gene, United Kingdom. Expand index (7 more) »

Academic boycott of Israel

The campaign for an academic boycott of Israel was launched in Ramallah, in the West Bank, in April 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals that formed the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

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Adaptationism

Adaptationism is the Darwinian view that many physical and psychological traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Biochemical Society

The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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British Neuroscience Association

The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is a scientific society with around 2,000 members.

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British Society for Social Responsibility in Science

The British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) was a group established in 1969 to stimulate an awareness of the social significance of science.

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Canongate Books

Canongate Books (often simply Canongate) is a Scottish independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh; it is named for the Canongate, an area of the city.

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E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author.

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Edge Foundation, Inc.

The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club.

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Edinburgh Medal

The Edinburgh Medal is a scientific medal given at the Edinburgh International Science Festival since 1989.

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Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

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Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective.

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Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England.

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Heritability

Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.

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Hilary Rose (sociologist)

Hilary Ann Rose (born 1935) During the 1939–45 war she was evacuated from London with her mother and brother.

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Humanists UK

Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes Humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights.

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the brain.

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International Journal of Epidemiology

The International Journal of Epidemiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in epidemiology.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit. "The Army of Defense for Israel"; جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي), commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal, are the military forces of the State of Israel.

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Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Leon Kamin

Leon J. Kamin (December 29, 1927 – December 22, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his contributions to learning theory and his critique of estimates of the heritability of IQ.

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List of British Jewish scientists

List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.

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Mad in America

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker, in which the author examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly antipsychotics.

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Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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New Scientist

New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.

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Not in Our Genes

Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society.

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Nuffield Council on Bioethics

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a UK-based independent charitable body, which examines and reports on bioethical issues raised by new advances in biological and medical research.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Richard Levins

Richard "Dick" Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who had researched diversity in human populations.

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Richard Lewontin

Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.

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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books

The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize celebrating outstanding popular science books from around the world.

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Sociobiology

Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution.

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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.

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Steven Poole

Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist.

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Straw man

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Lancet

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal.

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The Moral Maze

The Moral Maze is a live discussion programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990.

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The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rose

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