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Arithmetic and old lace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jeffrey Foss
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaV8W 3P4. June 19@uwm.uvlc.ca

Abstract

Geary's project faces the severe methodological difficulty of tracing the biological effects of gender on mathematical ability in a system that is massively open. Two methodological stratagems he uses are considered. The first is that pancultural sex differences are biological in nature, which is dubious in the domain of mathematics, since it is completely culture-bound. The second is that sociosexual differences are partly caused by biosexual differences, which renders his thesis unfalsifiable and empirically empty.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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