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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Authors:

Richard Dawkins (author) and Caroyl LaBarge (covers)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Mariner Books

Categories:

Anthology, biology, essay and science

Publication year:

2004

Original publication year:

2003

ISBN:

978-0-618-48539-0

Pages:

263

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Yes

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Table of Contents:

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• Introduction to the American Edition

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. A Prayer for My Daughter
   • 7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing

• Endnotes
• Index

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