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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 •
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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

Review | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

  • Raymond Tallis

Bringing Mind to Matter

Raymond Tallis

Fiction | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Artist of the Beautiful

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Wilfred M. McClay

A Far Other Butterfly

On “The Artist of the Beautiful” and the meeting of the spiritual and material realms

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Wilfred M. McClay

Essay | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Raymond Tallis

What Consciousness Is Not

Why it is so difficult for philosophers to escape the myth of mind as matter

Raymond Tallis

Essay | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Stephen L. Talbott

Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness

Survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

Essay | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Stephen L. Talbott

What Do Organisms Mean?

How life speaks at every level

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

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 | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Raymond Tallis

What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Debunking the tropes of neuromythology

Raymond Tallis

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