附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-235) and index.
1. A distinct science for a distinct species. Sociology's fragility. Nature's revenge. Equality at what price? the interpreting self and the meaningful society -- 2. Other animal species and us. Social theory and the second biological revolution. The case for other animals. What sociobiology teaches us. Tertiary rules and human choice -- 3. Mind, self, society, and computer. Respect for machines. The human essence test. Software intelligence. Hardware intelligence. Computers, humans, and rules -- 4. Putting nature first. The environmental impulse. Animal rights and human imagination. Deep ecology. Gaia. The computer in the woods -- 5. The post-modern void. Between the sacred and the profane. Beneath the sacred and the profane. Information versus meaning. Algorithmic justice. A world safe for systems -- 6. Social science as a way of knowing. The two faces of social science. Methodological pluralism. Sociological realism. Social science as a vocation. Is sociology necessary? -- 7. Society on its own terms. Competing metaphors. What social institutions are for. Philosophical anthropology revisited.
