Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1 "But what am I, then?" Chasing Personal Essences across National Literatures -- 1. Ural Mountains-Rome-London -- 2. Essentialism, Functionalism, and Cognitive Psychology -- 3. Possible Evolutionary...
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1 "But what am I, then?" Chasing Personal Essences across National Literatures -- 1. Ural Mountains-Rome-London -- 2. Essentialism, Functionalism, and Cognitive Psychology -- 3. Possible Evolutionary Origins of Essentialist Thinking -- 4. "A bullet's a bullet's a bullet!" -- 5. Talk to the Door Politely or Tickle It in Exactly the Right Place -- 6. Resisting Essentialism -- 7. The Ever-Receding "Essence" of Sosia -- 8. Identical Twins and Theater -- 9. How is Mr. Darcy Different from Colin Firth? -- 10. Looking for the Real Mademoiselle -- 11. "Mahatma Gandhi: war!" "But he was a pacifist." "Right! War!" -- PART 2 Why Robots Go Astray, or The Cognitive Foundations of the Frankenstein Complex -- 1. What is the Frankenstein Complex? -- 2. On Zygoons, Thricklers, and Kerpas -- 3. Theory of Mind -- 4. Theory of Mind and Categorization: Preliminary Implications -- 5. Concepts That Resist Categorization -- 6. . . . and the Stories They Make Possible -- 7. The Stories That Can Be Told about a Talking Needle -- 8. Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man" -- 9. Cognitive Construction of "Undoubted Facts": The Bicentennial Man" and the Logic of Essentialism -- 10. Made to Rebel -- 11. Why Phyllis Is Still a Robot -- 12. . . . and Why Rei Toei Is Not -- 13. More Human Than Thou (Piercy's He, She and It) -- 14. Made to Pray -- 15. Made to Serve. Made to Obey. Made to Break Hearts -- PART 3 Some Species of Nonsense -- 1. How Nonsense Makes Sense in The Hunting of the Snark -- 2. "Strings of Impossibilia" and What They Tell Us about the Value of Nonsense -- 3. "Painters of the Unimaginable," or More about Really Strange Concepts -- Conclusion: Almost beyond Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
