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Intelligence
A Bedford Spotlight ReaderFirst Edition ©2021
Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores pervasive questions about the concept of intelligence: How do we judge intelligence in people, animals, and even machines? Where do our assumptions about intelligence come from? What does it mean to display genius-level intellect? How do
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Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores pervasive questions about the concept of intelligence: How do we judge intelligence in people, animals, and even machines? Where do our assumptions about intelligence come from? What does it mean to display genius-level intellect? How do we measure intelligence and is it affected by our identities? Readings by essayists, scientists, journalists, scholars, and inventors take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students.
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each reflecting Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An editorial board of a dozen compositionists at schools with courses focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. Each reader collects thoughtfully chosen selections sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 pieces—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students from all majors make sustained inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as food, gender, happiness, language, music, science and technology, subcultures, and sustainability to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, with each chapter focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The instructor resource tab of each reader’s catalog page includes instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
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Table of Contents
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1: How Smart Are Animals?
Frans De Waal, Magic Wells
Jane Goodall, At Long Last I Belong
Dinitia Smith, A Thinking Bird or Just Another Birdbrain?
Philip Sopher, What Animals Teach Us About Measuring Intelligence
Rachel Monroe, The Cat Psychic
Alicia Puglionesi, How Counting Horses and Reading Dogs Convinced Us Animals Could Think
John Horgan, Do Fish Suffer?
Chapter 2: Are the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Worth the Rewards?
Ray Kurzweil, What Is AI, Anyway?
Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Tim Adams, Like Children Playing with a Bomb
Adam Elkus, Meet the Bots
Will Knight, The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Allie Shaw, Alexa, Siri, Sophia: Deconstructing AI’s Subliminal Gender Bias
Cade Metz, Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy – and Pricey – Art
Chapter 3: Is There More Than One Kind of Intelligence?
Howard Gardner, The Idea of Multiple Intelligences
Daniel Goleman, When Smart Is Dumb
Adam Grant, The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence
Robert Sternberg, What Is "Successful" Intelligence?
Russ Alloway and Tracy Alloway, The End of IQ (and the Dawn of Working Memory)
Philip Ball, "Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and Realities
John Mayer, We Need More Tests, Not Fewer
Chapter 4: Does Identity Determine Intelligence?
Malcolm Gladwell, None of the Above
Jennifer Lee, The Truth about Asian Americans’ Success
William Saletan, Stop Talking about Race and IQ
Diane Halpern, Sex Differences in Intelligence
Lily Rothman, A Cultural History of Mansplaining
Mark Joseph Stern, Are Gay People Smarter Than Straight People?
Mike Rose, Blue Collar Brilliance
Chapter 5: What Is Extreme Intelligence?
Claudia Kalb, What Makes a Genius?
Daniel Pink, What Kind of Genius Are You?
Matthew Francis, Cognitive Celebrity
Iriana Aristarkova, Genius and Evil
Emily Atkin, The Sexism of "Genius"
Sam Riches, The Genius Problem
David Z. Hambrick, What Makes a Prodigy?
Sentence Guide for Academic Writers
Index of Authors and Titles
Authors
Barclay Barrios
Barclay Barrios (PhD, Rutgers University) is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the body, queer theory, and pedagogy. He is past Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is the author of Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers and Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader.
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