This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Leading figures from science, philosophy, literature, and the media reflect on the breadth and range of Dawkins' contributions to science and public debate, from evolutionary theory and artificial life, to rationalism and ethics.
This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Leading figures from science, philosophy, literature, and the media reflect on the breadth and range of Dawkins' contributions to science and public debate, from evolutionary theory and artificial life, to rationalism and ethics.
Alan Grafen is Professor of Theoretical Biology in the Department of Zoology at Oxford. He is co-author of Modern Statistics for the Life Sciences (OUP, 2002) and numerous scientific papers. Dr Mark Ridley lectures at the Department of Zoology at Oxford, and is best known as the author of a number of books, including Evolution (Blackwell, 2e, 2003), Evolution: A Reader (OUP, 2e, 2003) and the critically acclaimed Mendel's Demon (Wiedenfeld, 2000).
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * BIOLOGY * Ballooning Parrots and Semi-Lunar Germs * The Battle of the Sexes Revisited * Richard Dawkins: Intellectual Plumber-and More * What is a Puma? * THE SELFISH GENE * Living with The Selfish Gene * The Gene Meme * The Intellectual Contribution of The Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory * An Eye on the Core: Dawkins and Sociobiology * LOGIC * The Selfish Gene as a Philosophical Essay * The Invention of an Algorithmic Biology * Selfish Genes and Information Flow * Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind * ANTIPHONAL VOICES * Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Progress * The Nest's Tale: Affectionate Disagreements with Richard Dawkins * What's the Matter with Memes? * HUMANS * Selfish Genes and Family Relations * Why a Lot of People with Selfish Genes Are Pretty Nice Except for their Hatred of The Selfish Gene * The Perverse Primate * CONTROVERSY * The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism * A Fellow Humanist * Dawkins and the Virus of Faith * The Politics and Ethics of Richard Dawkins * What the Whale Wondered: Evolution, Existentialism, and the Search for 'meaning' * WRITING * Richard Dawkins and the Golden Pen * Every Indication of Inadvertent Solicitude * Index
* Preface * BIOLOGY * Ballooning Parrots and Semi-Lunar Germs * The Battle of the Sexes Revisited * Richard Dawkins: Intellectual Plumber-and More * What is a Puma? * THE SELFISH GENE * Living with The Selfish Gene * The Gene Meme * The Intellectual Contribution of The Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory * An Eye on the Core: Dawkins and Sociobiology * LOGIC * The Selfish Gene as a Philosophical Essay * The Invention of an Algorithmic Biology * Selfish Genes and Information Flow * Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind * ANTIPHONAL VOICES * Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Progress * The Nest's Tale: Affectionate Disagreements with Richard Dawkins * What's the Matter with Memes? * HUMANS * Selfish Genes and Family Relations * Why a Lot of People with Selfish Genes Are Pretty Nice Except for their Hatred of The Selfish Gene * The Perverse Primate * CONTROVERSY * The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism * A Fellow Humanist * Dawkins and the Virus of Faith * The Politics and Ethics of Richard Dawkins * What the Whale Wondered: Evolution, Existentialism, and the Search for 'meaning' * WRITING * Richard Dawkins and the Golden Pen * Every Indication of Inadvertent Solicitude * Index
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