Human nature : fact and fiction

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Contributors Foreword, AC Grayling. Acknowledgements Introduction, Robin Headlam-Wells and Johnjoe McFadden Part I: Is human nature written in our genes or in our books? 1. The biology of fiction, Steven Pinker 2. Literature, science and human nature, Ian McEwan Part II: Can science and literature collaborate to define human nature? 3. Literature and evolution, Joseph Carroll 4. Human nature: one for all and all for one?, Gabriel Dover Part III: What has biology got to do with the imagination? 5. The biology of the imagination: how the brain can both play with truth and survive a predator, Simon Baron Cohen 6. Biology and imagination: The role of culture, Catherine Belsey 7. The limits of imagination, Rita Carter Part IV: Do we need a theory of human nature to tell us how to act? 8. Human nature or human difference?, Ania Loomba 9. What science can and cannot tell us about human nature, Kenan Malik 10. The cat, the chisel, and the grave, Philip Pullman.

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