Darwin's Dangerous Idea

<BR><B>Contents</B><BR><BR><I>Preface</I><BR><BR>Part I: Starting in the Middle<BR><BR>CHAPTER ONE<BR><BR><I>Tell Me Why</I><BR><BR>1. Is Nothing Sacred?<BR><BR>2. What, Where, When, Why -- and How?<BR><BR>3. Locke's "Proof" of the Primacy of Mind<BR><BR>4. Hume's Close Encounter<BR><BR>CHAPTER TWO<BR><BR><I>An Idea Is Born</I><BR><BR>1. What Is So Special About Species?<BR><BR>2. Natural Selection -- an Awful Stretcher<BR><BR>3. Did Darwin Explain the Origin of Species?<BR><BR>4. Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process<BR><BR>5. Processes as Algorithms<BR><BR>CHAPTER THREE<BR><BR><I>Universal Acid</I><BR><BR>1. Early Reactions<BR><BR>2. Darwin's Assault on the Cosmic Pyramid<BR><BR>3. The Principle of the Accumulation of Design<BR><BR>4. The Tools for R and D: Skyhooks or Cranes?<BR><BR>5. Who's Afraid of Reductionism?<BR><BR>CHAPTER FOUR<BR><BR><I>The Tree of Life</I><BR><BR>1. How Should We Visualize the Tree of Life?<BR><BR>2. Color-coding a Species on the Tree<BR><BR>3. Retrospective Coronations: Mitochondrial Eve and Invisible Beginnings<BR><BR>4. Patterns, Oversimplification, and Explanation<BR><BR>CHAPTER FIVE<BR><BR><I>The Possible and the Actual</I><BR><BR>1. Grades of Possibility?<BR><BR>2. The Library of Mendel<BR><BR>3. The Complex Relation Between Genome and Organism<BR><BR>4. Possibility Naturalized<BR><BR>CHAPTER SIX<BR><BR><I>Threads of Actuality in Design Space</I><BR><BR>1. Drifting and Lifting Through Design Space<BR><BR>2. Forced Moves in the Game of Design<BR><BR>3. The Unity of Design Space<BR><BR>Part II: Darwinian Thinking in Biology<BR><BR>CHAPTER SEVEN<BR><BR><I>Priming Darwin' s Pump</I><BR><BR>1. Back Beyond Darwin's Frontier<BR><BR>2. Molecular Evolution<BR><BR>3. The Laws of the Game of Life<BR><BR>4. Eternal Recurrence -- Life Without Foundations?<BR><BR>CHAPTER EIGHT<BR><BR><I>Biology Is Engineering</I><BR><BR>1. The Sciences of the Artificial<BR><BR>2. Darwin Is Dead -- Long Live Darwin!<BR><BR>3. Function and Specification<BR><BR>4. Original Sin and the Birth of Meaning<BR><BR>5. The Computer That Learned to Play Checkers<BR><BR>6. Artifact Hermeneutics, or Reverse Engineering<BR><BR>7. Stuart Kauffman as Meta-Engineer<BR><BR>CHAPTER NINE<BR><BR><I>Searching for Quality</I><BR><BR>1. The Power of Adaptationist Thinking<BR><BR>2. The Leibnizian Paradigm<BR><BR>3. Playing with Constraints<BR><BR>CHAPTER TEN<BR><BR><I>Bully for Brontosaurus</I><BR><BR>1. The Boy Who Cried Wolf?<BR><BR>2. The Spandrel's Thumb<BR><BR>3. Punctuated Equilibrium: A Hopeful Monster<BR><BR>4. Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Burgess Shale Double-Play Mystery<BR><BR>CHAPTER ELEVEN<BR><BR><I>Controversies Contained</I><BR><BR>1. A Clutch of Harmless Heresies<BR><BR>2. Three Losers: Teilhard, Lamarck, and Directed Mutation<BR><BR>3. Cui Bono?<BR><BR>Part III: Mind, Meaning, Mathematics, and Morality<BR><BR>CHAPTER TWELVE<BR><BR><I>The Cranes of Culture</I><BR><BR>1. The Monkey's Uncle Meets the Meme<BR><BR>2. Invasion of the Body-Snatchers<BR><BR>3. Could There Be a Science of Memetics?<BR><BR>4. The Philosophical Importance of Memes<BR><BR>CHAPTER THIRTEEN<BR><BR><I>Losing Out Minds to Darwin</I><BR><BR>1. The Role of Language in Intelligence<BR><BR>2. Chomsky Contra Darwin: Four Episodes<BR><BR>3. Nice Tries<BR><BR>CHAPTER FOURTEEN<BR><BR><I>The Evolution of Meanings</I><BR><BR>1. The Quest for Real Meaning<BR><BR>2. Two Black Boxes<BR><BR>3. Blocking the Exits<BR><BR>4. Safe Passage to the Future<BR><BR>CHAPTER FIFTEEN<BR><BR><I>The Emperor's New Mind, and Other Fables</I><BR><BR>1. The Sword in the Stone<BR><BR>2. The Library of Toshiba<BR><BR>3. The Phantom Quantum-Gravity Computer: Lessons from Lapland<BR><BR>CHAPTER SIXTEEN<BR><BR><I>On the Origin of Morality</I><BR><BR>1. E Pluribus Unum?<BR><BR>2. Friedrich Nietzsche's Just So Stories<BR><BR>3. Some Varieties of Greedy Ethical Reductionism<BR><BR>4. Sociobiology: Good and Bad, Good and Evil<BR><BR>CHAPTER SEVENTEEN<BR><BR><I>Redesigning Morality</I><BR><BR>1. Can Ethics Be Naturalized?<BR><BR>2. Judging the Competition<BR><BR>3. The Moral First Aid Manual<BR><BR>CHAPTER EIGHTEEN<BR><BR><I>The Future of an Idea</I><BR><BR>1. In Praise of Biodiversity<BR><BR>2. Universal Acid: Handle with Care<BR><BR><I>Appendix<BR><BR>Bibliography<BR><BR>Index</I>