David Haig: Podcast Interviews

David Haig, PhD

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Biologist, Author

3 Interviews

David Haig's Interviews

Sean Carroll & David Haig • 30 Nov 2020 • EN

David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida

Aristotle conceived of the world in terms of teleological “final causes”; Darwin, or so the story goes, erased purpose and meaning from the world, replacing them with a bloodless scientific algorithm. But should we abandon all talk of meanings and purposes, or instead conceptualize them as emergent rather than fundamen

Carrie Lynn Evans & David Haig • 10 Sep 2020 • EN

David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)

In his book, From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life (MIT Press), evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection is a process without purpose, yet gives rise to purposeful be

Ricardo Lopes & David Haig • 20 Aug 2020 • EN

#356 David Haig: Genetics, Development, and Intragenomic Conflict

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