Genesis redux : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / edited by Jessica Riskin.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

xv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: the Sistine gap / Jessica Riskin -- The imitation of life in ancient Greek philosophy / Sylvia Berryman -- The devil as automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the meanings of a fifteenth-century machine / Anthony Grafton -- Infinite gesture: automata and the emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare / Scott Maisano -- Abstracting from the soul: the mechanics of locomotion / Dennis des Chene -- The anatomy of artificial life: an eighteenth-century perspective / Joan B. Landes -- The homunculus and the mandrake: art aiding nature versus art faking nature / William R. Newman -- Sex ratio theory, ancient and modern: an eighteenth-century debate about intelligent design and the development of models in evolutionary biology / Elliott Sober -- The gender of automata in Victorian Britain / M. Norton Wise -- Techno-humanism: requiem for the cyborg / Timothy Lenoir -- Nanobots and nanotubes: two alternative biomimetic paradigms of nanotechnology / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- Creating insight: Gestalt theory and the early computer / David Bates -- Perpetual devotion: a sixteenth-century machine that prays / Elizabeth King -- Motions and passions: music-playing women automata and the culture of affect in late eighteenth-century Germany / Adelheid Voskuhl -- An archaeology of artificial life, underwater / Stefan Helmreich -- Booting up baby / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Body language: lessons from the near-human / Justine Cassell

Includes bibliographical references and index.