Richard Dawkins How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Grafen, Alan; Ridley, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-05-17
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Richard Dawkins, the world famous author of The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and other bestselling books, has come to play a prominent role as a leading public intellectual. As well as an evolutionary biologist and writer, he is widely known for his passionate advocacy of science and as a champion of rationalism. Often regarded as controversial, never anything but forthright in his views, his formidable skills in debate stand barely second to his reputation for the scientific insights and literary style of his books. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Alan Grafen is Professor of Theoretical Biology in the Department of Zoology, at Oxford University.
Mark Ridley lectures in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of a number of popular books, including the critically acclaimed Mendel's Demon.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. viii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Biology | |
| Ballooning Parrots and Semi-Lunar Germs | p. 3 |
| The Battle of the Sexes Revisited | p. 14 |
| Richard Dawkins: Intellectual Plumber-and More | p. 27 |
| What is a Puma? | p. 32 |
| The Selfish Gene | |
| Living with The Selfish Gene | p. 45 |
| The Gene Meme | p. 50 |
| The Intellectual Contribution of The Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory | p. 66 |
| An Eye on the Core: Dawkins and Sociobiology | p. 75 |
| Logic | |
| The Selfish Gene as a Philosophical Essay | p. 101 |
| The Invention of an Algorithmic Biology | p. 116 |
| Selfish Genes and Information Flow | p. 125 |
| Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind | p. 130 |
| Antiphonal Voices | |
| Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Progress | p. 145 |
| The Nest's Tale: Affectionate Disagreements with Richard Dawkins | p. 164 |
| What's the Matter with Memes? | p. 176 |
| Humans | |
| Selfish Genes and Family Relations | p. 191 |
| Why a Lot of People with Selfish Genes Are Pretty Nice Except for their Hatred of The Selfish Gene | p. 203 |
| The Perverse Primate | p. 213 |
| Controversy | |
| The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism | p. 227 |
| A Fellow Humanist | p. 236 |
| Dawkins and the Virus of Faith | p. 243 |
| To Rise Above | p. 248 |
| What the Whale Wondered: Evolution, Existentialism, and the Search for 'Meaning' | p. 255 |
| Writing | |
| Richard Dawkins and the Golden Pen | p. 265 |
| Every Indication of Inadvertent Solicitude | p. 270 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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