1. What is this thing called science? A very brief philosophical overview Michela Massimi and Duncan Pritchard 2. The Origins of Our Universe. Laws, testability, and observability in cosmology Michela Massimi and John Peacock 3. What are dark matter and dark energy? Michela Massimi and John Peacock 4. The Anthropic Principle and Multiverse Cosmology John Peacock and Alasdair Richmond 5. Do our modern skulls house stone-age minds? Jane Suilin Lavelle and Kenny Smith 6. From intelligent machines to the human brain Peggy Seriès and Mark Sprevak 7. What is consciousness? David Carmel and Mark Sprevak 8. Embodied Cognition and the Sciences of the Mind Andy Clark. Glossary of key terms Index
Biography
Michela Massimi, David Carmel, Andy Clark, Jane Suilin Lavelle, John Peacock, Duncan Pritchard, Alasdair Richmond, Peggy Seriès, Kenny Smith, and Mark Sprevak are all based at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
