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DARWIN'S

DANGEROUS

IDEA Evolution and the

Meanings of

Life

DANIEL C.

'A surpassingly

brilliant

DENNETT

book'

- Richard

Dawkins

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and

Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University,

Massachusetts. He is also the author of Content and Consciousness

(1969);

Brainstorms

(1978; Penguin, 1997); Elbow Room (1984); The

Intentional

Stance (1987); Consciousness

Explained

(1992; Penguin, 1993); and Kinds

of 'Minds (1996).

DARWINS

DANGEROUS

IDEA

EVOLUTION AND THE

MEANINGS OF LIFE

Daniel C. Dennett

PENGUIN BOOKS

Published by the Penguin Group

Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England

Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

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Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand

Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

First published in the USA by Simon & Schuster 1995

First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1995

Published in Penguin Books 1996

3579 10 864

The acknowledgements on p. 587 constitute an extension of this copyright page

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject

to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,

re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's

prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in

which it is published and without a similar condition including this

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Contents

Preface

PART I: STARTING IN THE MIDDLE

CHAPTER ONE

Tell Me Why

1. Is Nothing Sacred? 17

2. What, Where, When, Why—and How? 23

3. Tocke's "Proof of the Primacy of Mind 26

4. Hume's Close Encounter 28

CHAPTER TWO

An Idea Is Born

1. What Is So Special About Species? 35

2. Natural Selection—an Awful Stretcher 39

3. Did Darwin Explain the Origin of Species? 42

4. Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process 48

5. Processes as Algorithms 52

CHAPTER THREE

Universal

Acid

1. Early Reactions 61

2. Darwin's Assault on the Cosmic Pyramid 64

3. The Principle of the Accumulation of Design 68

4. The Tools for R and D: Skyhooks or Cranes? 73

5. Who's Afraid of Reductionism? 80

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