The restless clock a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
2016
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science
- 1. Machines in the garden
- 2. Descartes among the machines
- 3. The passive telescope or the restless clock
- 4. The first androids
- 5. The adventures of Mr. Machine
- 6. Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine
- 7. Darwin between the machines
- 8. The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg
- 9. Outside in
- 10. History matters.
