How to Make a Human Being

Christopher Potter Shows How, At Every Scale Of Description, Human Beings Escape The Net Of Scientific Reductionism. What It Is To Be Human Can Be Glimpsed In The Details: In The Opening Of A Window, In A Shared Joke. But Cannot Be Caught By Any Reductive Scientific Description. Part One: Materials And Instructions (1. Getting Started ; 2. What Can The Matter Be? ; 3. Taking Sides ; 4. Nothing -> Something -> Everything ; 5. What Is Science? ; 6. What Is The Universe? ; 7. Evidence For The Existence Of An External World ; 8. Evidence Againts The Existence Of An External World ; 9. On Time ; 10. On Things ; 11. Starting Again) Part Two: Animating The Doll (1. Matter -> Meat ; 2. Making Babies ; 3. On Consciousness ; 4. On The Self ; 5. Meat -> Mind ; 6. On Perception ; 7. On Free Will ; 8. On Behaviour ; 9. There Is Always Something Missing ; 10. When The Gene Is No Longer Enough ; 11. On Tools And Human Evolution ; 12. Being Rather Than Making) Part Three: On Being Human (1. On Culture ; 2. On The Relationship Between Human Beings And Nature ; 3. On The Relationship Between Human Beings And Other Animals ; 4. On The Relatiknship Between Human Beings And Other Human Beings ; 5. On Love ; 6. On Doing The Right Thing ; 7. On The Difficulty Of Being ; 8. On Dreams And Doing Nothing ; 9. On Memory ; 10. On Faith, Belief And Truth ; 11. On God ; 12. On Eternity ; 13. On Death ; 14. On Humility) Christopher Potter. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 309-322) And Index.