Richard Dawkins : how a scientist changed the way we think : reflections by scientists, writers, and philosophers /
edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2006.
- xiii, 283 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ballooning parrots and semi-lunar germs / Andrew F. Read -- The battle of the sexes revisited / Helena Cronin -- Richard Dawkins: intellectual plumber--and more / John Krebs -- What is a puma? / Michael Hansell -- Living with the selfish gene / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- The gene meme / David Haig -- The intellectual contribution of the selfish gene to evolutionary theory / Alan Grafen -- An eye on the core: Dawkins and Sociobiology / Ullica Segerstrale -- The selfish gene as a philosophical essay / Daniel C Dennett -- The invention of an algorithmic biology / Seth Bullock -- Selfish genes and information flow / David Deutsch -- Deep commonalities between life and mind / Steven Pinker -- Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress / Michael Ruse -- The nest's tale: affectionate disagreements with Richard Dawkins / Patrick Bateson -- What's the matter with memes? / Robert Aunger -- Selfish genes and family relations / Martin Daly and Margo Wilson -- Why a lot of people with selfish genes are pretty nice except for their hatred of the selfish gene / Randolph M. Nesse -- The perverse primate / Kim Sterelny -- The skeptic's chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism / Michael Shermer -- A fellow humanist / Richard Harries -- Dawkins and the virus of faith / A. C. Grayling -- The politics and ethics of Richard Dawkins / Marek Kohn -- What the whale wondered: evolution, existentialism, and the search for 'meaning' / David P. Barash -- Richard Dawkins and the golden pen / Matt Ridley -- Every indication of inadvertent solicitude / Philip Pullman.