The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a

What If It’s Us

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like creativity

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In this edition Hugh Lawson-Tancred’s lucid translation is accompanied by a stimulating introduction in which he highlights the central themes of one of philosophy’s supreme masterpieces

From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader

the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will