Origins -- How to do science -- Can there be a science of humans? -- Darwinism, and knowledge and power: historical perspectives and politics in science and the humanities -- Darwin and The French lieutenant's woman -- Uncertainty: pt. 1. Uncertainty, bias, determinism, and free will ; pt. 2. Language and uncertainty -- Preparing for Pynchon: thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, information, and meaning -- Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot49 -- Perception and reality: pt. 1. Human perception ; pt. 2. Reality and representation -- Revolutions in science -- Cycles and history/Yeats -- Ethics and morality in science and technology -- Brave new world -- Summary -- Appendix A: Science and literature- the course -- Appendix B: The science gap.
