Introduction: Huxley’s Joke, or the Problem of Agency in Nature and Science

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Introduction: Huxley’s Joke, or the Problem of Agency in Nature and Science 1
5. 1 Machines in the Garden 11
6. 2 Descartes among the Machines 44
7. 3 The Passive Telescope or the Restless Clock 77
8. 4 The First Androids 113
9. 5 The Adventures of Mr. Machine 151
10. 6 Dilemmas of a Self- Organizing Machine 189
11. 7 Darwin between the Machines 214
12. 8 The Mechanical Egg and the Intelligent Egg 250
13. 9 Outside In 296
14. 10 History Matters 337
15. Acknowledgments 375
16. Abbreviations 379
17. Notes 381
18. Bibliography 465
19. Index 533