Save Our Selves from Science Gone Wrong: Physicalism and natural selection - Softcover

Johnston, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977947025 ISBN 13: 9780977947027

Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

This brisk and engaging manifesto reveals natural selection to be the flawed product of a science hobbled from birth by denial of the self. After pointing out a dozen dubious assumptions lying behind natural selection Johnston shows how sounder assumptions can lead to better theories. He ends by calling for popular opposition to natural selection and for scientists to come up with sounder mechanisms. Until then, no mechanism of evolution at all should be taught in the science classroom.This is no creationist tract. In his demonstration of how to arrive at new mechanisms Johnston conjures up a genome-self able to literally dream up new species, a mechanism much more corrosive of the supernatural than Darwinism.From a Kirkus review of another of Johnston's books: “Johnston’s contribution to the field is an astonishingly original one. In a way, his version is deeply Cartesian, haunted by the interaction between mind and matter, but also grounded in the ordinary experience of human action. He thoughtfully understands that the quest for an origin story is not merely a matter of genetic mechanics, but also tied to the existence of the human self and the values and purposes that propel that self through a finite life"

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Save Our Selves from Science Gone Wrong This brisk and engaging manifesto reveals natural selection to be the flawed product of a science hobbled from birth by denial of the self. After pointing out a dozen dubious assumptions lying behind natural selection Johnston shows how sounder assumptions can lead to better theories. He ends by calling for popular opposition to natural selection and for scientists to come up with sounder mechanis... Full description

Edition details

• Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977947025
• ISBN 13: 9780977947027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164