Foreword by Daniel C. Dennett
Prologue: From the Beginning Was the Word
1 Barren Virgins
2 Social Genes
3 The “Gene” Meme
4 Differences That Make a Differance
5 Limber Robots and Lumbering Genes
6 Intrapersonal Conflict
7 Scratching Your Own Back
8 Reflexions on Self
9 How Come? What For? Why?
10 Sameness and Difference
11 Fighting the Good Cause
Interlude
12 Making Sense
X Vive la différance
13 On the Origin of Meaning
14 On the Past and Future of Freedom
15 Darwinian Hermeneutics
Cadenza
Appendix (a Vestigial Organ): Words about Words
Acknowledgments
References
Sources
Index