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Masters and Possessors of Nature

Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method

Human Nature is Here to Stay

Larry Arnhart on why biotechnology will not change our bodies, brains, and desires

Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls

Leon R. Kass on biotechnology and the pursuit of perfection

Bioethics and the Character of Human Life

Gilbert Meilaender on mortality, freedom, suffering, and the generations

The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology

Peter A. Lawler on the age’s three great illusions about human nature

The Moral Education of Doctors

Philip Overby on shaping the souls of aspiring physicians

Francis Bacon’s God

Stephen A. McKnight reconsiders the religious foundations of the “New Atlantis”

Daedalus and Icarus Revisited

Charles T. Rubin on science, the future, and the Haldane-Russell debate

The Scientist and the Poet

Paul Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry

Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism

Eric Cohen on the new commerce of the body

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