Caroline Werner Gannett Speaker Series

Consilience: The Cognitive Revolution

Suggested Readings

 

The following reading list includes selections by the speakers in our 2006-07 Gannett speaker series and related recommended readings. Evolutionary science reaches into our daily lives, as the evolution/creationism debate has entered public discourse in recent years. These recommended readings offer a framework for understanding the challenges from various disciplinary perspectives. We encourage you to explore the books and the DVD's.  The readings are available on Reserve in Wallace Library, RIT. Many books by our various speakers are also available for purchase in the RIT bookstore, Campus Connections, and Student Alumni Union. Books by specific authors will be available for purchase and signing at each talk.

 

You may check the status of each item directly at the Wallace Library website.

 

Books by the Speakers

 

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott. University of California Press, 2004 QH367 .S395 2005

 

Why We Get Sick by Randolph Nesse and George Williams. Random House, 1994 R723.N387 1996

 

Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment by Randolph Nesse.Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2001. BF701 .E955 2001

 

Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. Transaction Publishers, 1988 HV6515.D35 1988

 

The Truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. Yale Univ. Press, 1999. HQ759.92 .D35 1999

 

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003. BL60 .W544 2002

 

Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind by David M. Buss BF698.95.B87 2004  

 

Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David M.Buss. Basic Books, 2003. HQ21 .B95 2003

 

Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill by David M.Buss. Penguin Press HC, 2005. HV6515 .B88 2005

 

Books by the Capstone Speaker, Daniel C. Dennett

 

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel Dennett. Simon & Schuster, 1995 QH375 .D45 1995

and PBS DVD in also available in ETC-Media Resource Center DVD 310 A

 

Brainstorms: philosophical essays on mind and psychology BF38.D46 1981


Elbow room: the varieties of free will worth wanting BJ1461.D426 1984


The intentional stance B105.I56D46 1987


The mind's I: fantasies and reflections on self and soul / composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett B29.H58 1981 

 

Brainchildren: essays on designing minds (replacement copy on order).


Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon  BL2775.3 .D46 2006


Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)  B945.D393 S94 2005


Freedom Evolves BJ1461 .D427 2004


Daniel Dennett (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) ed. Andrew Brook and Don Ross

 

 

Related Recommended Readings

 

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. Vintage Books, 1994 GN365.3.W75 1994 

 

The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris. Simon & Schuster, 1999 HQ772.H353 1998 

 

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. Penguin, 2003 BF341.P47 2002 

 

The Adapted Mind edited by J. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby. Oxford, 1992 BF711.A33 1992 

 

Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons. Oxford, 1981 BF692.S9 1981

 

Human Universals by Donald Brown. McGraw-Hill, 1991 GN357.B761991 

Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Oxford University Press, 2004 (EBook)

Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement ed. By John Brockman. Vintage Books, 2006 BL262 .I58 2006

The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney. Basic Books,2005 Q175.52.U5 M66 2006

A Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson. Basic Books, 1997. (Pulitzer Prizewinner, 1998). KF224.S3 L37 1998

Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life by Niles Eldredge. WW Norton, 2005.

(The companion book to the American Museum of Natural History's exhibit on Charles Darwin, just closed and currently traveling to other venues) QH31.D2 E43 2005