Books — hermiene.net

"Come on baby. (And she had no fear.) And she ran to him. (Then they started to fly.) They looked backward and said goodbye. (She had become like they are.) She had taken his hand."

Back to Books

Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

Authors:
Richard Dawkins (author) and Gillian Somerscales (editor)
Language:
English
Original language:
English
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Categories:
Anthology, essay and science
Publication year:
2017
Original publication year:
2017
ISBN:
978-0-593-07751-1
Has read?
No
Images:
Back of Science in the Soul.Spine of Science in the Soul.Front of Science in the Soul.
High-res images:
[Back (37.77 MB)] [Spine (7.12 MB)] [Front (36.37 MB)]
Table of Contents:
[Toggle visibility]
  • Author's introduction
  • Editor's introduction

I The value(s) of science

  • The values of science and the science of values
  • Speaking up for science: an open letter to Prince Charles
  • Science and sensibility
  • Dolittle and Darwin

II All its merciless glory

  • 'More Darwinian than Darwin': the Darwin—Wallace papers
  • Universal Darwinism
  • An ecology of replicators
  • Twelve misunderstandings of kin selection

Ill Future conditional

  • Net gain
  • Intelligent aliens
  • Searching under the lamp-post
  • Fifty years on: killing the soul?

IV Mind control, mischief and muddle

  • The 'Alabama Insert'
  • The guided missiles of 9/11
  • The theology of the tsunami
  • Merry Christmas, Prime Minister!
  • The science of religion
  • Is science a religion?
  • Atheists for Jesus

V Living in the real world

  • The dead hand of Plato
  • 'Beyond reasonable doubt'?
  • But can they suffer?
  • I love fireworks, but...
  • Who would rally against reason?
  • In praise of subtitles; or, a drubbing for dubbing
  • If I ruled the world...

VI The sacred truth of nature

  • About time
  • The giant tortoise's tale: islands within islands
  • The sea turtle's tale: there and back again (and again?)
  • Farewell to a digerati dreamer

VII Laughing at live dragons

  • Fundraising for faith
  • The Great Bus Mystery
  • Jarvis and the Family Tree
  • Gerin Oil
  • Sage elder statesman of the dinosaur fancy
  • Athorism: let's hope it's a lasting vogue
  • Dawkins' Laws

VIII No man is an island

  • Memories of a maestro
  • O my beloved father: John Dawkins, 1915-2010
  • More than my uncle: A. F. 'Bill' Dawkins, 1916-2009
  • Honouring Hitch
  • Sources and acknowledgements
  • Bibliography of works cited
  • Index

Back to Books