how a scientist changed the way we think : reflections by scientists, writers, and philosophers /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 283 p. ;
Dimensions
21 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ballooning parrots and semi-lunar germs / Andrew F. Read -- The battle of the sexes revisited / Helena Cronin -- Richard Dawkins: intellectual plumber -- and more / John Krebs -- What is a puma? / Michael Hansell -- Living with The Selfish Gene / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- The gene meme / David Haig -- The intelluctual contribution of The Selfish Gene to evolutionary theory / Alan Grafen -- An eye on the core: Dawkins and sociobiology / Ullica Segerstrale -- The Selfish Gene as a philosophical essay / Caniel C. Dennett -- The invention of an algorithmic biology / Seth Bullock -- Selfish genes and information flow / David Deutsch -- Deep commonalities between life and mind / Steven Pinker -- Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress / Michael Ruse -- The nest's tale: affectionate disagreements with Richard Dawkins / Patrick Bateson -- What's the matter with Memes? / Robert Aunger -- Selfish genes and family relations / Martin Daly and Mrgo Wilson -- Why a lot of people with selfish genes are pretty nice except for their hatred of The Selfish Gene / Randolph M. Nesse -- The perverse primate / Kim Sterelny -- The skeptic's chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism / Michael Shermer -- A fellow humanist / Richard Harries -- Dawkins and the virus of faith / A.C. Grayling -- To rise above / Marek Kohn -- What the whale wondered: evolution, existentialism, and the search for 'meaning' / David P. Barash -- Richard Dawkins and the golden pen / Matt Ridley -- Every indication of inadvertent solicitude / Philip Pullman