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David P. BarashPublication Details
Book1st edBellevue Literary Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) QH375 .B29 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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A delightful read.”-Michael Shermer, author of The Science of Good and Evil “Entertaining and thought-provoking.”-Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate If we are, in part, a product of our genes, can free will exist? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- Includes index
Contents
- Seductions of centrality
- Evolutionary design flaws, or, Why bad things have happened to perfectly good creatures (including ourselves)
- Mainstream misconceptions
- Neither leaps nor bounds
- Who’s in charge here?
- Material of mind : a surprising homage to B. F. Skinner
- Y B conscious?
- Intelligence
- Let us reason together - - Believing is seeing
- Evolutionary existentialism and the meaning of life
- The tyranny of the natural
- Forbidden knowledge?
- Are we selfish altruists? Group- oriented individualists? (Or what?)
- Dealing with dilemmas : personal gain versus public good
- The ugly underside of altruism
- Why is violence such a "guy thing"?
- One and a half cheers…
- Honest liars?
- What puts the dys in dystopia?
- Evolutions’s odd couple
ISBN
- 9781934137055
- 1934137057
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