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In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. The belief that human beings can be understood essentially in biological terms is a serious obstacle, argues Tallis, to clear thinking about what human beings are and what they might become. To explain everyday behaviour in Darwinian terms and to identify human consciousness with the activity of the evolved brain denies human uniqueness, and by minimising the differences between us and our nearest animal kin, misrepresents what we are, offering a grotesquely simplified and degrading account of humanity. We are, shows Tallis, infinitely more interesting and complex than we appear in the mirror of biologism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: The Strange Case of Professor Gray and Other Provocations 1 (14)

1 Science and Scientism

15 (36)

2 Consequences

51 (22)

3 Neuromania: A Castle Built on Sand

73 (74)

4 From Darwinism to Darwinitis

147 (36)

5 Bewitched by Language

183 (26)

6 The Sighted Watchmaker

209 (34)

7 Reaffirming our Humanity

243 (34)

8 Defending the Humanities

277 (60)

9 Back to the Drawing Board

337 (26)

References 363 (16)

Index