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Mind & Human Nature

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

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Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
All

Essay | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Raymond Tallis

What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Debunking the tropes of neuromythology

Raymond Tallis

Essay | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Stephen L. Talbott

The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

Why the organism is not a machine

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

Essay | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Roger Scruton

Hiding Behind the Screen

Roger Scruton

Essay | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Raymond Tallis

How Can I Possibly Be Free?

Why the neuroscientific case against free will is wrong

Raymond Tallis

Review | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Algis Valiunas

The Science of Self-Help

Goofy advice, dubious wisdom, and neuro-gurus

Algis Valiunas

Review | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Caitrin Keiper

Disenchanting Determinism

Is human life less meaningful the more its mechanisms are known?

Caitrin Keiper

Essay | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Stephen L. Talbott

Getting Over the Code Delusion

Epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

Fiction | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

The New Adam and Eve

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Online Exclusive | April 21, 2010

April 21, 2010

  • Peter Augustine Lawler

Being Personal

Why are there no dolphin scientists?

Peter Augustine Lawler

Adam and Eve in a mansion

Essay | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Charles T. Rubin

Artful by Nature

Reading “The New Adam and Eve”

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Charles T. Rubin

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