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Mind & Human Nature

What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
All
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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Kirsten A. Hall

Crusoe at the Crossroads

On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, New Atlantis, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Kirsten A. Hall

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Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • David Kordahl

Steven Weinberg Glimpses the Promised Land

The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day

David Kordahl

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Natalie Elliot

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?

Natalie Elliot

Review | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Olga Rachello

Lives of the Immortalists

The human stories of people who don’t want to be human

Olga Rachello

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Review | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • David Bentley Hart

The Illusionist

Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.

David Bentley Hart

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Review | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • David Kordahl

Pop Goes the Physics

David Kordahl

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Essay | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • Stephen L. Talbott

Evolution and the Purposes of Life

On biology’s unasked questions about the goal-directed activities of organisms

From: Information, Matter, and Life

Stephen L. Talbott

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Essay | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • Ari Schulman

What Is It Like to Know?

Why we talk in circles about experience

From: Information, Matter, and Life

Ari Schulman

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Essay | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • Daniel N. Robinson

The Limits of Information

The gaps between scientific explanation and human experience

From: Information, Matter, and Life

Daniel N. Robinson

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • John Sexton

A Reductionist History of Humankind

The trouble with Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

John Sexton

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