From Darwin to Derrida : selfish genes, social selves, and the meanings of life / David Haig ; foreword by Daniel C. Dennett
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press |
| 出版年 | [2020] |
| 大きさ | online |
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| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references and index Summary: "The main task of this book is to explain how the process of natural selection produces purposeful beings that make sense of their world - organisms who do things for good reasons. It provides a link between a physical world described in terms of matter in motion and a living world described in terms of meanings and purposes. David is proposing a unification of biology and the humanities through a shared engagement with questions of purpose and meaning. From the Introduction: Spoken and written language are the expression of deep inner structures. The language that is censored says something about the values and fears of the censor. This book pays close attention to the meanings of words for four main reasons. The first is that languages evolve and provide useful analogies for thinking about genetic evolution. The second is that meaning is the outcome of a process of interpretation and is specific to each interpreter. The same words will be interpreted differently and mean different things for each r |
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| 著者標目 | *Haig, David, 1958- author |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Natural selection -- History 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | LCC:QH375 DC23:576.8/2 |
| 巻冊次 | : ebook ; ISBN:9780262358026  ISBN:9780262043786 ; XISBN:9780262358026
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| ISBN | 9780262358026 |
| URL | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sophia-jp/detail.action?docID=6161711 |
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