William B. Irvine (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy

You

A Natural History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of your hyper-extended family tree, going all the way back to the Big Bang.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780190869199
• ISBN-10: 0190869194
• Artikelnr.: 51381685

Autorenporträt

William B. Irvine is Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He describes himself as a twenty-first century Stoic with an intense interest in science. Dr. Irvine is the author of the bestselling A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (2008) and numerous other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Your Multiple Identities
Part 1. Your Deep Ancestry
Chapter 1. Your People
Chapter 2. You and I Are Related
Chapter 3. You Have a Great Throwing Arm
Chapter 4. Your Place on the Tree of Life
Chapter 5. Your Sex Problem(s)
Chapter 6. The Neanderthal in Your Family Tree
Chapter 7. The Code(s) by which You Live
Chapter 8. Your (Alien?) Roots
Part 2. The Cellular You
Chapter 9. You Are Complex
Chapter 10. Your Ancestors Were Boring
Chapter 11. Your "Cellmates"
Chapter 12. Your "Boarders"
Part 3. The Atomic You
Chapter 13. You Are What You Eat, Ate
Chapter 14. Your Windblown Past
Chapter 15. Your Cosmic Connection
Chapter 16. Pulling Yourself Together
Part 4. Your Place in the Universe
Chapter 17. You Are a Gene Machine
Chapter 18. You Are (Merely) Part of Life
Chapter 19. Your Many Afterlives
Chapter 20. Why Are You Here?
Notes
Works Cited
Index