Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life/
D. C. Dennett
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995
- 586 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Part I. Starting in the middle. Tell me why ; An idea is born ; Universal acid ; The tree of life ; The possible and the actual ; Threads of actuality in design space -- Part II. Darwinian thnking in biology. Priming Darwin's pump ; Biology is engineering ; Searching for quality ; Bully for brontosaurus -- Part III. Mind, meaning, mathematics, and morality. Controversies contained ; The cranes of culture ; Losing our minds to Darwin ; The evolution of meanings ; The emperor's new mind, and other fables ; On the origin of morality ; Redesigning morality ; The future of an idea.