Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
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9781844652723
- ISBN10:
1844652726
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2014-08-20
- Publisher: Routledge
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Summary
Tallis argues that the rise of biologism has serious consequences and demonstrates that, by denying human uniqueness and minimizing the differences between humans and their nearest animal kin, it misrepresents what we are, offering a grotesquely simplified and degrading account of humanity. He suggests that seeing ourselves as animals may lead us to find reasons for treating others as less than human.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Strange Case of Professor Gray and Other Provocations | p. 1 |
| Science and Scientism | p. 15 |
| Consequences | p. 51 |
| Neuromania: A Castle Built on Sand | p. 73 |
| From Darwinism to Darwinitis | p. 147 |
| Bewitched by Language | p. 183 |
| The Sighted Watchmaker | p. 209 |
| Reaffirming our Humanity | p. 243 |
| Defending the Humanities | p. 277 |
| Back to the Drawing Board | p. 337 |
| References | p. 363 |
| Index | p. 379 |
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