A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
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Table of contents
- Introduction to the American Edition
- Science and Sensibility
- 1.1 A Devil's Chaplain
- 1.2 What is True?
- 1.3 Gaps in the Mind
- 1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
- 1.5 Trial By Jury
- 1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
- 1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed
- 1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle
- Light Will Be Thrown
- 2.1 Light Will Be Thrown
- 2.2 Darwin Triumphant
- 2.3 The 'Information Challenge'
- 2.4 Genes Aren't Us
- 2.5 Son of Moore's Law
- The Infected Mind
- 3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
- 3.2 Viruses of the Mind
- 3.3 The Great Convergence
- 3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads
- 3.5 Time to Stand Up
- They Told Me, Heraclitus
- 4.1 Lament for Douglas
- 4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams
- 4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
- 4.4 Snake Oil
- Even the Ranks of Tuscany
- 5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature
- 5.2 The Art of the Developable
- 5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends
- 5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
- 5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
- There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us
- 6.1 Ecology of Genes
- 6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa
- 6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
- 6.4 Heroes and Ancestors
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- 7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing
- Endnotes
- Index