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

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1 Introduction: The Sistine Gap Jessica Riskin One: Connections 2 The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy Sylvia Berryman 3 The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine Anthony Grafton 4 Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare Scott Maisano 5 Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion Dennis des Chene 6 The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective Joan B. Landes Two: Emergence 7 The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature William R. Newman 8 Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology Elliott Sober 9 The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain M. Norton Wise 10 Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg Timothy Lenoir 11 Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 12 Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer David Bates Three: Interactions 13 Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays Elizabeth King 14 Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany Adelheid Voskuhl 15 An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater Stefan Helmreich 16 Booting Up Baby Evelyn Fox Keller 17 Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human Justine Cassell