The restless clock
Subtitle: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick
By: Jessica Riskin
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780226302928
Subjects: Science; Life (Biology); Vitalism; Philosophy; Mechanism (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-531) and index.
Table of contents: title: Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science; title: Machines in the garden; title: Descartes among the machines; title: The passive telescope or the restless clock; title: The first androids; title: The adventures of Mr. Machine; title: Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine; title: Darwin between the machines; title: The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg; title: Outside in; title: History matters.