Rangings of the Mind. (Book Reviews: Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method.; Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect.)

The Opening 1. Sense, Sensibility, and Self: The Peculiar Humanity of Stories 2. Simplifying Religious Revolutions: The Birth of Doctrine 3. The Great Intellectual Playing Field: In Praise of Games 4. Three Dinner Parties 5. A Matter of Taste: Minimalism and the World of Art 6. To Science Is Human: Factual Pleasures 7. Explaining the Whole Universe: Motion, Velocity, and Direction 8. Explaining the Rest of the Universe: Darwinian Insight 9. Virtue and the Simple Life 10. Masters of Reality Closure Notes Acknowledgments Index