In this episode, I explain my concerns and criticisms of the claim that "everything is genetic." I explain both why I once found the hereditarian literature very persuasive, as well as the philosophical and epistemological reasons I am no longer willing to agree that the case can be considered closed. I've listed a few resources that might be useful for further reading below. Of course I don't agree with every single thing each of these authors argues either—and some of them even contradict one another on various details. But as a whole, they have greatly informed my thinking on this subject and many others.

On behavioral genetics and biology: Eric Turkheimer, "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate" https://amzn.to/4l5Q6K0

Evelyn Fox Keller, "The Century of the Gene" https://amzn.to/3TxKFb6

Denis Noble, "The Music of Life" https://amzn.to/4leUnuU

David Moore, "The Developing Genome" https://amzn.to/4nbGeQP

Aaron Panofsky, “Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavioral Genetics” https://amzn.to/4k0vJNo

Philip Ball, "How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology" https://amzn.to/442walX

Books not specifically about genetics but which have contributed enormously to my general philosophy of science and causality (and the weirdness of the universe):

Iain McGilchrist, "The Master and His Emissary" https://amzn.to/4n8G6Bx

Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytical Idealism" https://amzn.to/3I3NNsI

Don Hoffman, "The Case Against Reality" https://amzn.to/4jUjCBz

Robert Rosen, "Life Itself" https://amzn.to/44aDWsD

Lewis Mumford, "The Myth of the Machine" https://amzn.to/4n8GVu7

Paul Feyerabend, "Against Method" https://amzn.to/4nbIMhX

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