Format:
1 online resource (x, 192 pages)
ISBN:
9780203480922
,
9781134392483
,
9781134392520
Content:
How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415309066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415340779
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415309066
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203480922
