The New Atlantis, Summer 2005 With articles on video games, genetics, Star Trek, Hiroshima, and much more... Edited by Eric Cohen, Adam Keiper, Christine Rosen, et. al. Posted: Monday, July 11, 2005
PRESS RELEASES & NEWS
The latest issue of EPPC's journal The New Atlantis (www.TheNewAtlantis.com) includes major new essays on video games, modern genetics, computers in education, and technology and private property. It also includes a pair of essays on the significance for bioethics of the writings of John Paul II, and a special tribute to the best science and technology articles from the four decades of The Public Interest. Also: a collection of shorter articles on American math and science education, the end of Star Trek and Star Wars, the development of non-lethal weapons, and more.
The New Atlantis is an effort to clarify the nation's moral and political understanding of all areas of technology, with a special emphasis on bioethics. The quarterly journal is an attempt to make sense of the larger questions surrounding technology and human nature, and the practical questions of governing and regulating science -- especially where the moral stakes are high and the political divides are deep.
In the latest issue:
The Editors on John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate. Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science.” O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience. Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science. Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles.” Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method. Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water. Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates. James C. Capretta on why health care records are so low-tech. Caitrin Nicol on predictions of robotic intimacy. David Franz on the utopian origins of Dilbert's sorkspace. George Mitchell on drugs in baseball.
