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From Darwin to Derrida : selfish genes, social selves, and the meanings of life /
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
|---|---|
| 개인저자 | Haig, David, 1958-, author. |
| 서명/저자사항 | From Darwin to Derrida :selfish genes, social selves, and the meanings of life /David A. Haig ; foreword by Daniel C. Dennett. |
| 발행사항 | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 소장본 주기 | Added to collection customer.56279.3 |
| ISBN | 0262358026 9780262358026 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Prologue: From the Beginning Was the Word -- 1: Barren Virgins -- Form and Function -- Darwinian Nuptials -- An Unconsummated Union? -- Reduction to Mechanism -- 2: Social Genes -- Genes as Strategists -- Kinds of Genes -- The Reach of the Strategic Gene -- The Prokaryotic Firm: Managing a Cytoplasmic Commons -- Dangerous Liaisons -- Protection Rackets -- Team Substitutions -- Multicellular Corporations -- A Chimeric Menagerie -- The Nuclear Citadel -- The Sexual Revolution -- The Open Society and Its Enemies -- The Eukaryotic Alliance Sex Chromosomes -- Genomic Imprinting and the Altercation of Generations -- Reprise -- 3: The "Gene" Meme -- 4: Differences That Make a Differance -- Phenotypes -- Functions and Side Effects -- Environments -- Are Genes Dispensable? -- Are Genes Countable? -- The Strategic Gene -- Historical Kinds -- Developmental Systems Framework -- Are Genes Special? -- From Whence Have We Come to Where Are We Going -- 5: Limber Robots and Lumbering Genes -- Who Decides to Smile? -- A Warm Inner Glow -- Mixed Messages -- Genomic Imprinting and Kinship -- Resolution of Intragenomic Conflicts -- A Cold Shoulder Prader-Willi and Angelman Syndromes -- E pluribus unum -- 6: Intrapersonal Conflict -- 7: Scratching Your Own Back -- Afterthoughts -- 8: Reflexions on Self -- Guides to Action -- Sympathy and the Proliferation of Selves -- Morality -- 9: How Come? What For? Why? -- On the Remote Origins of Ultimate Causes -- Proximate and Ultimate Causes in the Nineteenth Century -- Ernst Mayr and Teleology -- Proximate and Ultimate Causes after Mayr -- 10: Sameness and Difference -- Toward a Genetic Concept of Homology -- Characters and States -- Natural and Nominal Kinds -- Novelty and Adaptation Modularity and Evolvability -- Formal Causes -- 11: Fighting the Good Cause -- Aristotle Redux -- Eggs and Chickens -- Retrorecursion -- Formal Causes and Information -- Difference Demystified -- Final Causes and Functions -- Darwin's Demon -- Mendel's Demon -- Peirce's Demon -- Gene-Selectionism and Developmental Systems Theory -- Genomes as Texts -- Teleodynamics -- Back to the Future -- Interlude -- 12: Making Sense -- Teleology of Interpretation -- Information and Meaning -- Interpretation of Interpretations -- Private and Public Texts -- Meanings of Genes -- Telegraphing One's Intentions Mutual Information and Meaning -- Information Theory and Meaning -- Difference Making and Mechanisms -- The Parable of the Bathtub -- The Meanings of Life -- X: Vive la diffe?rance -- Deconstructing Derrida -- 13: On the Origin of Meaning -- Ribozymes and Riboswitches -- On Hyperastronomic Numbers -- The Potential and the Actual -- How Time Passes -- Decisive Action -- Monkeys and Typewriters -- Semantic Topiary -- The Creativity of Natural Selection -- 14: On the Past and Future of Freedom -- 15: Darwinian Hermeneutics -- What Is It Like to Be a Slug? -- Objective Phenomena -- Telling Tales |
| 요약 | "The main task of this book is to explain how the process of natural selection produces purposeful beings that make sense of their world - organisms who do things for good reasons. It provides a link between a physical world described in terms of matter in motion and a living world described in terms of meanings and purposes. David is proposing a unification of biology and the humanities through a shared engagement with questions of purpose and meaning. From the Introduction: Spoken and written language are the expression of deep inner structures. The language that is censored says something about the values and fears of the censor. This book pays close attention to the meanings of words for four main reasons. The first is that languages evolve and provide useful analogies for thinking about genetic evolution. The second is that meaning is the outcome of a process of interpretation and is specific to each interpreter. The same words will be interpreted differently and mean different things for each reader. As a result many acrimonious disputes in the philosophy of biology are really quibbling about definitions rather than disputes about facts. The third is that the origin of language marked an extraordinary expansion in the lexical expressivity of the flux of meaning. The fourth, and most important, is that the beauty and diversity of language, like the beauty and diversity of the natural world, are wonders to behold. Natural selection reuses old materials for new purposes. Its products are thereby comprised of parts of variable age that nevertheless must work together in some more-or-less coherent fashion. The resulting genomes are pastiche and so is this book. Its bricolage extends to the extensive use of quotations and paraphrase. Finally, I believe that the humanities and sciences have much to say to each other, so I wished to express my ideas in a style that would engage both audiences at the risk of enraging both and being ignored by both. Much of the prose was originally written under the constraints of meeting the selective criteria of scientific reviewers, and it shows. But the freedom from these constraints as I have revised the text has been liberating"-- |
| 일반주제명 | Natural selection -- History. Natural selection. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version:Haig, David, 1958-From Darwin to Derrida.Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]9780262043786 |
| 대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2431025 |
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