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David Haig

From Darwin to Derrida

Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life

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How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world.In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this, Haig proposes, is the origin of mutable texts”—genes—that preserve a record of what has worked in the world. These texts become the specifications for the intricate mechanisms of living beings.Haig draws on a wide range of sources—from Laurence Sterne's T… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-35803-3
  • EAN: 9780262358033
  • Produktnummer: 34355402
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 512 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 635 KB
  • Abbildungen: 5 B&W ILLUS.

Über den Autor


David A. Haig is George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.

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