The myths we live by
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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