Professor James R. Flynn

Emeritus Professor,
Head of Department, 1967-96

Prof Flynn has combined political and moral philosophy with psychology to clarify problems such as justifying humane ideals and whether it makes sense to rank races and classes by merit. Professor Flynn has been profiled in Scientific American and ran for the New Zealand Parliament in 1993 and 1996 as Alliance candidate for Dunedin North. Research Interests: Humane ideals and ideological debate; classics of political philosophy; race, class and IQ.

His publications:

American politics: a radical view (Auckland, Paul 1967); Humanism and ideology (London, Routledge 1973);

Race, IQ and Jensen (London, Routledge 1980);

Asian Americans: achievement beyond IQ (Hillsdale, NJ, Erlbaum 1991);

How to defend humane ideals (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2000);

What is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect (Cambridge University Press, in press)

Articles and book chapters (since 1996):

‘IQ Trends Over Time: Intelligence, Race and Meritocracy’, in S Durlauf, K A Arrow and S Bowles, eds, Meritocracy and Inequality, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1999) 35-60

‘Searching for Justice: The Discovery of IQ Gains Over Time’, American Psychologist 54: 5-20 (1999)

‘Reply to Rushton: A Gang of gs Overpowers factor Analysis’, Personality and Individual Difference, (1999)

‘Evidence Against Rushton: The Genetic Loading of WISC-R Subtests and the Causes of Between- group IQ Differences’, Personality and Individual Differences, 1999

‘IQ Gains Over Time: Toward Finding the Causes’ in U Neisser, ed, The Rising Curve: Long Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures, American Psychological Association, Washington D C, 1998

‘The Schools: IQ Tests, Labels and the Word "Intelligence" ’ in J S Carlson, J Kingma and W Tomic, eds, Advances in Cognition and Educational Practice, Vol 5, Conceptual Issues in Research on Intelligence, JAI Press, London, 1998

‘Israeli Military IQ Tests: Gender Differences Small; IQ Gains Large’, Journal of Biosocial Science, 1998

‘Rising IQ Scores: Implications for the Elderly’, Australasian Journal on Aging, 1998

‘WAIS-III and WISC-III: IQ Gains in the United States from 1972 to 1995; How to Compensate for Obsolete Norms’, Perception and Motor Skills, 1998

‘Group Differences: Is the Good Society Impossible?’ Journal of Biosocial Science, 1996

‘What Environmental Factors Affect Intelligence: The Relevance of IQ Gains over Time’ in D K Detterman, ed, Current Topics in Human Intelligence, Vol 5, The Environment, Ablex, Norwood, NJ, 1996

‘Scots, The Physiological Correlates of IQ, and the Milwaukee Project" in D K Detterman, ed, Current Topics in Human Intelligence, Vol 5, The Environment, Ablex, Norwood, NJ, 1996

Papers delivered (since 1996)

‘Defending Humane Ideals’, January 1996, Hoover Institute on War and Peace, Stanford University
‘Justice and Meritocracy’, April 1996, University of Chicago

‘IQ Gains Over Time: Towards Finding the Causes’, keynote address commissioned by the American Psychological Association, Symposium on IQ Gains Over Time, April 1996, Emory University
‘Group Differences: Is the Good Society Impossible?’ Distinguished Speaker Series, Spring 1996, Cornell University

‘Nietzsche and the Ladder of Being’, The Stapledon Society, December 1996, University of Liverpool
‘Plato and Parmenides’, December 1996, University of Liverpool

‘IQ Gains and Race’, January 1997, The Brookings Institution, Washington D C
‘Class and Affirmative Action’, Cognos Symposium, February 1997, Nelson

‘Searching For Justice: The Discovery of IQ Gains Over Time’ invited address commissioned by the American Psychological Association, The 105th Annual Convention, August 1997, Chicago

‘The Ontology of Intelligence’, December 1997, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University
‘Jensen, IQ Gains and Meritocracy’, December 1998, University of Liverpool

‘Recent Developments on Race and Supposed Genetic Differences’, January 1999, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

‘The Causes of IQ Gains Over Time: Simulating generations’, invited address commissioned by Biogenetics Society and Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Joint Symposium on Genes and Intelligence, July 1999, Vancouver

‘Meritocracy from Plato to the Bell Curve’, invited address commissioned by The National Academies, Symposium on Measurement and Meritocracy, July 1999, Woods Hole, Mass.

‘Dialogue with Jensen’, July 1999, Cornell University

Articles about Prof Flynn

Eureka
by Matt Nippert
Listener (NZ)
Cover Story
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3517/features/9725/eureka.html

FROM THE LISTENER ARCHIVE: FEATURES
October 6-12 2007 Vol 210 No 3517