Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life Book

List of Contributors     ix
List of Illustrations     xiii
Acknowledgments     xvii
Introduction: The Sistine Gap   Jessica Riskin     1
Connections
The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy   Sylvia Berryman     35
The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine   Anthony Grafton     46
Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare   Scott Maisano     63
Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion   Dennis Des Chene     85
The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective   Joan B. Landes     96
Emergence
The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature   William R. Newman     119
Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology   Elliott Sober     131
The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain   M. Norton Wise     163
Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg   Timothy Lenoir     196
Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology   Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent     221
CreatingInsight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer   David Bates     237
Interactions
Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays   Elizabeth King     263
Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany   Adelheid Voskuhl     293
An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater   Stefan Helmreich     321
Booting Up Baby   Evelyn Fox Keller     334
Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human   Justine Cassell     346
Index     375