Human Nature: Fact and Fiction Literature,

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and original perspectives on human nature by ten leading writers, scientists and academics.There is in this v

Contributors

vii

Foreword

xi

A. C. Grayling

Acknowledgements

xv

Introduction

1

(26)

Robin Headlam Wells

Johnjoe McFadden

I Is human nature written in our genes or in our books?

The biology of fiction

27

(13)

Steven Pinker

Literature, science and human nature

40

(23)

Ian McEwan

II Can science and literature collaborate to define human nature?

Literature and evolution

63

(19)

Joseph Carroll

Human nature: one for all and all for one?

82

(21)

Gabriel Dover

III What has biology got to do with imagination?

The biology of the imagination: how the brain can both play with truth and survive a predator

103

(8)

Simon Baron-Cohen

Biology and imagination: the role of culture

111

(17)

Catherine Belsey

The limits of imagination

128

(19)

Rita Carter

IV Do we need a theory of human nature to tell us how to act?

Human nature or human difference?

147

(17)

Ania Loomba

What science can and cannot tell us about human nature

164

(20)

Kenan Malik

The cat, the chisel, and the grave: an answer to the question 'do we need a theory of human nature in order to act?'

184

(10)

Philip Pullman

Index

194

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