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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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Review | Spring 2012

Spring 2012

  • Ari Schulman

What Is the Body Worth?

Ari Schulman

Fiction | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Artist of the Beautiful

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Algis Valiunas

Abraham Maslow and the All-American Self

Why the prophet of self-actualization was more than just a New Age icon

Algis Valiunas

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

  • 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

  • Stephen L. Talbott

Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness

Survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

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Essay | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

  • Adam Keiper
  • Ari Schulman

The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence

From: Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Adam Keiper and Ari Schulman

Essay | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

  • Charles T. Rubin

Machine Morality and Human Responsibility

From: Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Spring 2011

Spring 2011

  • Ari Schulman

GPS and the End of the Road

On the transformation of travel and discovery

From: Place and Placelessness in America

Ari Schulman

Essay | Spring 2011

Spring 2011

  • Gilbert Meilaender

Transitional Humanity

Gilbert Meilaender

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