Core Values of Science

• Values in Science: An Educational Perspective, by Douglas Allchin
• The Ways in Which the Sciences Are and Are Not Value Free, by Hugh Lacey
• A Bouquet of Scientific Values, by Noretta Koertge
• Use of Value Judgments in Science, by Elizabeth Anderson
• A Forgotten Model for Purposeful Science, by Richard Green and Wil Lepkowski
• Reconciling Impartiality with a Feminist Ethics of Care, by Helga Kuhse et al
• Science and Human Values, by N. Mukunda
• Threats to Tomorrow's World, by Lord May

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Human Nature

• The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine, by Steven Pinker
• Neuroscience and the Person, by Nancey Murphy (lecture)
• Theism, Dualism, and the Scientific Image of Humanity, by Maurice Schouten
• The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value, by Barry Stroud
• Comparative Social Theory, by E. O. Wilson
• Genes, Memes, and Minds, by John Maynard Smith
• Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man, by Wilfrid Sellars
• Science and Human Values, Philip Cam
• Materialism with a Human Face, by Lynn Rudder Baker
• On Being No One, by Thomas Metzinger (video)
• Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, by David Buss
• The Scientific and Cultural Meaning of the Odious Ape Human Comparison, by Jonathan Marks
• 98%Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil, by Jonathan Marks

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Mind

• Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, by Lena Cosmides and John Tooby

• The Evolution of Knowledge, by David Papineau

• The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker

• So How Does the Mind Work?, by Steven Pinker

• The Naked Face, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions, by Lena Cosmides and John Tooby

• Evolution, Culture and the Irrationality of the Emotions, by Stephen Stich and Chandra Sripada

• The Limits of Objectivity, by Thomas Nagel

• Antonio Damasio: Reflections on the Neurobiology of Emotion and Feeling

• Can There Be a Darwinian Account of Human Creativity? by Daniel Dennett

• The Relationship Between Matter and Life, by Rodney Brooks

• Consciousness: The Achilles Heel of Darwinism?  by NIcholas Humphrey

• The Society of Selves, by Nicholas Humphrey

• Romantic Love: A Mammalian Brain System for Brain Choice, by Helen Fisher et al

• Mechanisms of Theory Formation in Young Children, by Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz

• In a Mirror Darkly: Does Rationality Reflect Superstition? by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

• Reason, Red in Tooth and Claw, by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

• The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences, by Thomas Gilovich et al

• Objectivity in the Eye of the Beholder: Divergents Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others, by Emily Pronin, et al

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Freedom

• Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism, by Evelyn Fox Keller
• Why Nature & Nurture Won't Go Away, by Steven Pinker
• Muses, Spooks, Neurons and the Rhetoric of Freedom, by Harold Fromm
• Reflections on Free Will, Determinism, and Indeterminism, by Robert Kane
• Some Observations on the Psychology of Thinking About Free Will, by Daniel Dennett
• Defending Free Will: A Fruit Fly Makes Choices, by Julie Steenhuysen
• Philip Kitcher, Genetic Determinism, and the Informational Gene, by Paul Griffiths
• The New Eugenics in Cinema, by David Kirby
• Natural Born Dualists, with Paul Bloom (video)
• The God Experiments, by John Horgan

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Religion

• The Science of Religion; The Religion of Science, by Richard Dawkins
• Beyond Belief, Dawkins et al (videos)
• A Dialogue on Biology, Morality and Religion,  N. Murphy and J. Schloss (video)
• Is God an Accident? by Paul Bloom
• Science and the Soul, Robert Oppenheimer (video)
• The Wars over Evolution, by Richard Lewontin
• Religion's Evolutionary Lanscape, by Scott Atran and Ara Norenzayan
• Pope John Paul II on Science and Faith
• Nonoverlapping Magisteria, by Steven Jay Gould
• When Religion Step's on Science's Turf, by Richard Dawkins
• The Prescientific Concept of a Soul, by Thomas Metzinger
• The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion, by Steven Pinker
• The Neurobiology of Spiritual Purpose, by Ron Pies
• God and the Brain, by Jerome Groopman
• Progress in Religion, by Freeman Dyson
• The Case Against Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne
• Under God or Under Darwin? by Mustafa Akyol
• Atheism and Evolution, by Daniel Dennett
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett (audio)
• How to Wire Your Brain for Religious Ecstasy, by John Horgan
• Against the Immortality of the Soul, by Matthew McCormick
• Commentaries on the Social and Psychological Function of Religion, by Various Authors

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Morality

• The Biological Basis of Morality, by E. O. Wilson
• The Biological Basis of Ethics, by Peter Singer
• Biological Altruism, by Samir Okasha
• Morality and the Social Instincts, by Frans de Waal
• The Evolution of Altruism, by Eric Strong
• The Liver and the Moral Organ, by Marc D. Hauser
• What the Bagel Man Saw, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Is Morality and Elegant Machine or a Kludge? by Stephen Stich
• Punitive Sentiments as an Anti-Free Rider Psychological Device, by Michael Price et al
• Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches, by Stephen Stich
• Ethics and Intuitions, by Peter Singer
• The Evolution of Moral Norms, by Brian Skyrms and William Harris
• On the Naturalistic Fallacy: A Conceptual Basis for Evolutionary Ethics, by John Teehan and Christopher diCarlo
• The Objective Attitude, by Tamler Sommers
• Objectivity of Social Science and Social Policy, by Max Weber
• The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, by James Rachels
• Darwin's Nihilisitic Idea, by Alexander Rosenberg and Tamler Sommers
• Nothing More than Feeling?  The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgment, by David Pizarro
• The Great Ape Project (video)

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Scientific Culture

• The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow
• Science and Multiculturalism, by N. Koertge
• Science and Technology in a Multicultural and Post-Colonial World, by Sandra Harding
• Science, Multiple Modernities, and Culture, by Sandra Harding
• Silent Invasion: Imanishi's Primatology and Cultural Bias in Science, by Frans de Waa

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Gender

• Women, Science and the Gender Gap, by Cathy Young
• The Gender Gap in Math and Science Careers (NPR audio)
• Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women into the Fold, by Cornelia Dean
• Men and Women at Promise for Scientific Excellence, by Lubinski et al.
• Does Bias in Science Hold Women Back? by Cecily Selby
• The Psychology of Gender, by Mahzarin Banaji
• Hysteria Trumps Academic Freedom, by Doreen Kimura
• Sex Hormones Influence Human Cognitive Pattern, by Doreen Kimura
• Under-representation or Misrepresentation? by Doreen Kimura
• The Science of Gender and Science, S. Pinker & E. Spelke (video)
• Sex Differences in Math and Science, by E. Spelke
• Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, by Elizabeth Anderson

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Race

• Race, Genes and IQ, by Ned Block
• The Concept of Race, by Richard Lewontin (video)
• Race, Genetics and Medicine in the 21st Century, by Jonathan Marks
• Anthropology, Race and the Genome, by Jonathan Marks
• Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence, by Henry Harpending
• Lessons of the Ashkenazim, by Steven Pinker
• The Bias Finders, by Bruce Bower
• Implicit Association Test (Harvard Research Website)
• Can Race be Erased? by Lena Cosmides and John Tooby?
• Arbitrary Metrics in Psychology, by H. Blanton and J. Jaccard
• Ordinary Prejudice, by Mahzahrin Banaji

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Politics

• Modernity, Science and Democracy, by Sandra Harding
• The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin
• Liberating Science from Politics, by Daniel Sarewitz
• When Scientists Politicize Science, by Roger Pielke
• Forget About Politicizing Science, by David Guston
• Scientific Expertise and Environmental Politics, by Stephen Bocking
• Science in the Arab World, by Wasim Maziak
• Science and Democracy in a Globalizing World, by Clark Miller
• Science Policy and its Social Context, Sarewitz et al

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Communication

• An Epidemiology of Representations, by Dan Sperber

• Darwin, Deception, and Facial Expression, by Paul Eckman et al

• The Guru Effect, by Dan Sperber

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Law

• For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything, by Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen
• Acceptable Intellectual Property, by Steven Hilgartner
• Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science, by Deborah Osborne
• Conflicts of Interest in Scientific Research, by David Resnik
• The CSI Effect, by Jeffrey Toobin
• The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, by John Donohue and Steven

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Magical Thinking

• Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, by Phillips Stevens
• Imagining the Impossible, by Rosengren et al
• Why People Believe Strange Things, by Michael Shermer (video)
• Everyday Magical Powers, by Emily Pronin et al
• An Investigation into Alleged "Hauntings", by Richard Wiseman et al
• Verbal Suggestion and Alleged Psychokinetic ability, by Richard Wiseman
• The Power of Prayer, from The Why Files

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Fringe and Pseudoscience

• Distinguishing Science from Pseudoscience, by Berry Beyerstein
• The Appeal of Alternative Medicine, by James Alcock
• Personality Plus, by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Persuasive Appeal of Alternative Medicine, by T. Kaptchuk and D. Eisenbergy
• What is Wrong with Intelligent Design Theory? by Elliot Sober
• Devolution: Why Intelligent Design Isn't, by Allen Orr
• In Defense of Intelligent Design, by William Dembski
• Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance, by Rupert Sheldrake
• What if Telepathy Really Happens? by Rupert Sheldrake (video)
• The Recovered Memory Debate, by Dr. James Ost
• Rupert Sheldrake's Online Telepathy Experiments
• Near-Death Experiences, by Susan Blackmore
• By Anthony Campbell
  • Living with Uncertainty
  • The Appeal of Alternative Medicine
  • The Casaubon Delusion
  • Avoiding the Casaubon Delusion

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Impact of New Technologies

• Can Science be Ethical? by Freeman Dyson
• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, by Bill Joy
• What Is the Singularity? by Vernor Vinge
• Embrace, Don't Relinquish the Future, by Max More
• Societal Implications of Nanotechnology, by Ray Kurzweil
• The Human Machine Merger: Are We Headed for the Matrix? by Ray Kurzweil
• The Age of Intelligent Machines, by Marvin Minsky
• The Storm Before the Calm, by Robert Wright
• How to Protect Human Dignity from Science, by Daniel Dennett
• Watching TV Makes You Smarter, by Steven Johnson
• God is the Machine, by Kevin Kelly
• A Nascent Robotics Culture, by Sherry Turkle

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Sex and Reproduction

• Moving Toward Clonal Man, by James Watson

• Preventing a Brave New World, by Leon Kass

• A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science, by Leon Kass

• Shopping at the Genetic Supermarket, by Peter Singer

• Designer Babies, by Shannon Brownlee

• Human Cloning is the Least Interesting Application of Cloning, by Ray Kurzweil

• Two Sexes are not enough, by Anne Fausto-Sterling

• The Evolution of Human Mating, by David Buss

• Stem Cell Challenges in Biology and Public Policy, Douglas Melton (video)

• The Origins and Nature of Mating Intelligence, by Geoffrey Miller

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The Environment

• Threats to Tomorrow's World, by Lord May

• Ecological Collapse of Pre-Industrial Societies, by Jared Diamond

• How Societies Fail and Sometimes Succeed, by Jared Diamond (video)

• The Vanishing, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Climate Science and Climate Policy, by Stephen Schneider

• The Kyoto Placebo, by Ruth Bell

• The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage, by Jennie Stephens and Bob van der Zwaan

• Climate Change and Carbon Trading,  S. Schneider and T. Heller (video)

• Is the "Citizen Scientist " an Oxymoron? by Stephen Schneider

• 15 Ways to Avert a Climate Crisis, Al Gore (video)

• The Great Global Warming Swindle (video)

• Clean Energy Alternatives,  with Vinod Khosla (video)

• How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor, by C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer

• The Wisdom of Designing Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough (video)

• Hope for Hydrogen, by Daniel Sperling and Joan Ogden

• The Hype about Hydrogen, by Joseph Romm

• Yes in My Back Yard: Distributed Electric Power, by Richard Munson

• The Energy Problem: Our Current Choices and Future Hopes,  Steven Chu (video)

• Earth in Its Final Century? by Martin Rees

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 Mental Health and Well Being

• Towards Humanism in Psychiatry, by Jonathan Glover

• Positive Psychology: An Introduction, by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice, by Angela Duckworth et al

• Sick With Worry, by Jerome Groopman

• Getting Over It, by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Grief Industry, by Jerome Groopman

• Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being, by Paul Eckman et al.

• Affective Forecasting, by Daniel Gilbert

• Emotional Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective, by Randolph Nesse

• Evolution: Psychiatric Nosology's Missing Biological Foundation, by Randolph Nesse

• Materialism and the Evolution of Consciousness, by Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi

• Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi

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The Knowledge Economy

• Towards Knowledge Societies, UNESCO World Report

• The Formula, by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Moral Hazard Myth, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Connecting the Dots, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Open Secrets, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Trading Up, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

• Who Says We Know, by Larry Sanger

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Aging

• Euthanasia and Health Care, by Richard Posner

• Life Extension and Overpopulation, by Max More

• The Way We Age Now, by Atul Gawande

• Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick, by Laura Carstensen

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Food and Agriculture

• Food, Ethics and the Environment, Peter Singer and Eric Schlosser (video)

• Equality for Animals? by Peter Singer

• Genetically Modified Foods or Organic:  Do We Have to Choose?  Maarten Chrispeels (video)

• Slow Food Nation, Carlo Petrini (video)

• Watch What You Eat, Ruth Reichl (video)

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Risk & Security

• The Risk Pool, by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Seat Belt Solution, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

• The Picture Problem, by Malcolm Gladwell

• How the SUV Ran Over Automotive Safety, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Nuclear Deterrence for the Future, by Thomas C. Schelling

• Beyond Freakanomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life

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Drugs

• Re-orienting U.S. Drug Policy, by Jonathan Caulkins and Peter Reuter

• New Pills for the Mind, Samuel Barondes (video)

• Java Man, by Malcolm Gladwell

• Eyes Wide Open, by Jerome Groopman

• Peyote on the Brain, by John Horgan

• Placebo Effect, by NIcholas Humphrey

• The Placebo Effect, by Emrys Westacott

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Poverty

• Never Again? by Paul Farmer

• What Should a Billionaire Give and What Should You? by Peter Singer

• One Laptop Per Child, Nicholas Negroponte (video)

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Intelligence

• A Multiplicity of Intelligences, by Howard Gardner

• Race, Genes and IQ, by Ned Block
• Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence, by Henry Harpending
• Lessons of the Ashkenazim, by Steven Pinker
• The Science of Gender and Science, S. Pinker & E. Spelke (video)
• Sex Differences in Math and Science, by E. Spelke
• The Origins and Nature of Mating Intelligence, by Geoffrey Miller

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Violence

• A History of Human Violence, by Steven Pinker

• Why Men Rape, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer

• Rape As an Adaptation, by Jerry Coyne and Andrew Barry

• Cruelty's Rewards, by Victor Nell

• The Evolution of Evil, by Joshua Duntley and David Buss

• A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil, by Philip Zimbardo

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Education & Citizenship

• Why Do Some People Resist Science? by Paul Bloom and Deena Weisber

• Only Connect: Bridging the Institutionalized Gap Between Science and the Humanities in Teaching, by Gerald Holton

• Postmodernist Transformations of the Problem of Scientific Literacy, by N. Koertge

• The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children, by James Heckman and Dimitriy Masterov

• Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High Technology Society, by Herbert Simon

• Mediarology, by Stephen Schneider

• Is the "Citizen Scientist " an Oxymoron? by Stephen Schneider

• Envisioning a Transformed University, by James Duderstadt et al

• The Economic Imperative for Teaching With Technology, by Susanne Lohmann

• The Real Crisis in Evolution Education, by Scott Sampson

• Do Economists Make Bad Citizens?  by Robert H. Frank et al

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Ethics of Science and Medicine

• The Ethical Responsibilities of Scientists, by Howard Gardner

• Doctors Without Borders, by Shannon Brownlee

• Hurting All Over, by Jerome Groopman

• A Knife in the Back, by Jerome Groopman

• The Ethics and Economics of Heroic Surgery, by Peter Ratiu and Peter Singer

• Ethics of Science: A 0 .1% Solution, by Michael Kalichman

• Securing Life Science Research in an Age of Terrorism, by Ronald Atlas

• Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Human Life, Leon Kass (video)

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