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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 •
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Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Kent Anhari

Bot Anxiety

What happens to public discourse when everyone fails the Turing Test?

Kent Anhari

Essay | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Nathan Beacom

Chasing the Sun

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart

From: Available in Audio

Nathan Beacom

Essay | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Adam Elkus

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting

From: Available in Audio

Adam Elkus

Review | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • James Mumford

A Bioethics of the Strong

Fixated on autonomy, liberal bioethics forgets its mandate to protect the weak.

James Mumford

Review | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Saving Ourselves

Real love as rebellion in TV’s Brave New World

Tara Isabella Burton

Symposium

The Evolution of Human Nature

Swords into Syllogisms
Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman
The Evolutionary Ethics of E. O. Wilson
Moderately Socially Conservative Darwinians

Symposium | Summer 2005

Summer 2005

John Paul II and the Ethics of the Body

The Anti-Theology of the Body
Reading the Body

Symposium | Summer 2004

Summer 2004

Internet Pornography: An Exchange

The End of Obscenity
The Pornography Culture

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Executive Summary
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning

Symposium

Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Are we an insignificant speck?
Searching for Other Earths
Meaning in a Silent Universe
The Fine-Tuning of Nature’s Laws
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