| Preface |
| 1 | What is this thing called science? A very brief philosophical overview |
| MICHELA MASSIMI AND DUNCAN PRITCHARD |
| 2 | The origins of our universe: laws, testability and observability in cosmology |
| MICHELA MASSIMI AND JOHN PEACOCK |
| 3 | What are dark matter and dark energy? |
| MICHELA MASSIMI AND JOHN PEACOCK |
| 4 | The anthropic principle and multiverse cosmology |
| JOHN PEACOCK AND ALASDAIR RICHMOND |
| 5 | Do our modern skulls house stone-age minds? |
| JANE SUILIN LAVELLE AND KENNY SMITH |
| 6 | From intelligent machines to the human brain |
| PEGGY SERIÈS AND MARK SPREVAK |
| 7 | What is consciousness? |
| DAVID CARMEL AND MARK SPREVAK |
| 8 | Embodied cognition and the sciences of the mind |
| ANDY CLARK |
| Glossary of key terms |
| Index |