Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The Summer 2009 issue is a collection of essays dedicated our deepening understanding of the meaning and significance of being human.
Contents:
Introduction
The changing face of human nature
Hilary Rose & Steven Rose
Humans: the party animal
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Natural & normative
Robert B. Pippin
Humans, aliens & autism
Ian Hacking
Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals—continued
Charles Darwin
Humans & humanists
Harriet Ritvo
How do we know what we are? The science of language & human self-understanding
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Experimental moral psychology
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Countess Shares Confidences over Karneval Chocolate
Poem by Rita Dove
