The Measure of Merit

By John S. Carson. 2006

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List of Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I: MENTAL ABILITIES AND REPUBLICAN CULTURES 9 Chapter One: "The most precious gift of nature": Natural Aristocracy, Republican Polities, and the Meanings of Talent 11 Chapter Two: Mental Capacities and Orthodox Minds: Mental Science, Education, and the Politics of Individual Difference 38 Chapter Three: All Men Are Created Equal? Anthropology, Intelligence, and the Science of Race 75 PART II: INDIVIDUALIZING INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF DIFFERENCE 111 Chapter Four: Between the Art of the Clinic and the Precision of the Laboratory: Individual Intelligence and the Science of Difference in Third Republic France 113 Chapter Five: American Psychology and the Seductions of IQ 159 PART III: MERIT, MATTER, AND MIND 195 Chapter Six: Out of the Lab and Into the World: Intelligence Goes to War 197 Chapter Seven: Intelligence and the Politics of Merit between the Wars 229 Epilogue 271 Notes 281 Index 387

Subfields: Law, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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• Making Merit: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste (2015, background): “As historians of the Enlightenment have shown, virtues and talents became the focus of philosophers and political writers concerned with engendering a new society based on principles of nature and reason (Kloppenberg 1987; Carson 2002; 2006).”
• The Whiteness of AI (2020, background): “Throughout the history of Western thought, but in particular since the seven-teenth century in Europe and the territories it colonised, intelligence has been associated with some humans more than others (Carson 2006) .”