Modern Mind

26.
    22.
Ibid.,
page 52.
    23.
Ibid.,
pages 78–79.
    24.
Ibid.,
page 84.
    25.
Ibid.,
page 85.
    26.
Ibid.,
page 108.
    27.
Ibid.,
page 107.
    28. Clifford Geertz,
The Interpretation of Cultures,
New York: Basic Books, 1973.
    29.
Ibid.,
page 36.
    30.
Ibid.,
pages 3ff.
    31.
Ibid.,
page 412.
    32.
Ibid.,
page 435.
    33. Clifford Geertz,
Local Knowledge,
New York: Basic Books, 1983, paperback edition 1997, page 8.
    34.
Ibid.,
page 74.
    35.
Ibid.,
page 151.
    36.
Ibid., page 161.
    37. Geertz’s work continues in two lecture series published as books. See:
Works and Lives,
London: Polity, 1988; and
After the Fact,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995.
    38.
Bryan Magee, Men of Ideas, Op. cit., pages 196–197.
    39. Consider some of the topics tackled in his various books: ‘Two concepts of rationality’ and ‘The impact of science on modern concepts of rationality,’ in
Reason, Truth and History,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ‘What is mathematical truth?’ and ‘The logic of quantum mechanics,’ in
Mathematics, Matter and Method,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980; and ‘Why there isn’t a ready-made world’ and ‘Why reason can’t be naturalised,’ in
Realism and Reason,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Magee, Op.
cit.,
pages 202 and 205.
    40.
Putnam, Reason, Truth and History, Op. cit., page 215. Magee, Op. cit., page 201.
    41. Magee,
Op. cit.,
pages 143–145.
    42. For a more accessible form of Van Quine’s ideas, see:
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987, where certain aspects of everyday life are ingeniously represented mathematically. But see also: ‘Success and Limits of Mathamaticalism’, in
Theories and Things,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981, pages 148ff. See also: Magee,
Op. cit.,
page 147.
    43. For Van Quine’s place vis à vis analytical philosophy, see: George D. Romanos,
Quine and Analytic Philosophy,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1983, pages 179ff. Magee, Op.
cit.,
page 149.
    44. Alasdair Maclntyre,
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?,
London: Duckworth, 1988.
    45.
Ibid.,
page 140.
    46.
Ibid.,
page 301.
    47.
Ibid.,
page 302.
    48.
Ibid.,
page 304.
    49.
Ibid.,
page 339.
    50.
Ibid.
, page 500.
    51. David Harvey,
The Condition of Postmodernity,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1980, paperback 1990.
    52.
Ibid.,
pages 8–9.
    53.
Ibid., page 3.
    54.
Ibid.,
page 135.
    55.
Ibid.,
page 137.
    56.
Ibid.,
page 136.
    57.
Ibid.,
page 140.
    58.
Ibid.,
page 147.
    59.
Ibid.,
page 156.
    60.
Ibid.,
page 351.
    61.
Ibid.,
page 350.
    62.
Ibid.,
page 328.

CHAPTER 39: ‘THE BEST IDEA EVER’
    1.
Bodmer and McKie, The Book of Man, Op. cit., page 259.
    2.
Colin Tudge, The Engineer in the Garden, Op. cit., pages 257–260.
    3. Bodmer and McKie, Op.
cit.,
page 257.
    4.
Ibid.,
page 259.
    5.
Ibid.,
page 261.
    6. A. G. Cairns-Smith,
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
    7.
Ibid.,
page 47.
    8.
Ibid.,
page 74.
    9.
Ibid.,
page 80.
    10. Richard Fortey,
Life: An Unauthorised Biography,
London: HarperCollins, 1997; Flamingo paperback, 1998, pages 44 and 54ff.
    11.
Ibid.,
pages 55–56, where the calculation for bacterial production of oxygen is given.
    12. J. D. MacDougall,
A Short History of Planet Earth,
New York: Wiley, 1996, pages 34–36. Fortey, Op.
cit.,
pages 59–61.
    13.
Ibid.,
page 52. See also: Tudge, Op.
cit.,
pages 331 and 334–335 for a discussion of the implications of Margulis’s idea for the notion of co-operation. Fortey, Op.
cit.,
pages 68–69.
    14. For slimes, see: Fortey, Op.
cit.,
pages 81ff; for Ediacara see
ibid.,
pages 86ff. The Ediacara are named after Ediacara Hill in South Australia, where they were first discovered. In March 2000, in a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, Dr Andrew Parker, a zoologist and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, attributed the Cambrian explosion to the evolution of vision, arguing that organisms had to develop rapidly to escape a predator’s line of sight. See:
The
(London)
Times, 1
March 2000, page 41.
    15. Fortey, Op. cit., pages 102ff.
    16. MacDougall, Op.
cit.,
pages 30–31.
    17. John Noble Wilford,
The Riddle of the Dinosaurs,
London and Boston: Faber, 1986, pages 221ff.
    18.
Ibid.,
pages 226–228.
    19. Walter Alvarez,
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom,
Princeton and London: Princeton