Seymour Itzkoff

Seymour Itzkoff

Seymour W. Itzkoff (born 22 July, 1928) is an American professor known for his controversial research into intelligence.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Itzkoff, who is Jewish, earned a B.A. degree from the University of Hartford. While at school, he was a cellist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra; he then joined the United States Army, and was a cellist in their symphony. He later taught elementary school while earning a master's degree in philosophy from Columbia University in 1956. While studying for his doctorate, he taught education at Hunter College, CUNY. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1965, and took a position at Smith College that year.

Itzkoff's work on intelligence has been published in "Mankind Quarterly", and he has been a Pioneer Fund recipient. The ensuing tension echoed similar problems faced by Pioneer Fund recipient Linda Gottfredson at University of Delaware. One historian wrote, "While the Delaware and Smith cases are unique, they illustrate an inherent tension between freedom in research and other central academic values."O'Neil, Robert M. Free Speech in the College Community. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. pp. 174-75]

In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Gottfredson and published in the "Wall Street Journal", which defended the findings on race and intelligence in "The Bell Curve".Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994). Mainstream Science on Intelligence. "Wall Street Journal", p A18.]

Itzkoff, who is an advocate of eugenics, wrote the preface to John Glad's 2008 book, "Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century", in which he states, "The real history of eugenics, as Dr. Glad points out, is rich in a truly liberal vision for the improvement in the state of all of humankind." [ From preface to "Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century," [http://www.whatwemaybe.org/txt/txt0000/Glad.John.2008.FHE.Meisenberg-abridgement.en.doc abridged online version] ]

elected bibliography

*"Cultural Pluralism and American Education", 1969
*"Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man", 1971
*"Emanuel Feurermann, Virtuoso", 1979
*"The Forms of Man", 1983
*"Triumph of the Intelligent", 1985
*"How We Learn to Read", 1986
*"Why Humans Vary in Intelligence", 1987
*"The Making of the Civilized Mind", 1990
*"The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal", 1994

References

External links

* [http://lrainc.com/swtaboo/stalkers/itzkoff.html Seymour W. Itzkoff profile] via lrainc.com
* [http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/bibliography/Itzkoff.htm Seymour W. Itzkoff] via Institute for the Study of Academic Racism


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