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Dædalus coming up in Dædalus: Dædalus on race Kenneth Prewitt, Orlando Patterson, George Fredrickson, Ian Hacking, Jennifer Hochschild, Glenn Loury, David Hollinger, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Victoria Hattam, Kwame A. Appiah, Ian Haney López, Melissa Nobles, and Kim Williams Fall 2004 on imperialism Niall Ferguson, Kenneth Pomeranz, Anthony Pagden, Jack Snyder, Akira Iriye, Molly Greene, William Easterly, Robin 2004: on human nature Fall on Steven Pinker Why nature & nurture won’t go away 5 Blackburn, and Henk Wesseling human nature Richard Rorty Philosophy-envy 18 on professions Howard Gardner, Lee Shulman, William Sullivan, Geoffrey Galt Richard Wrangham Killer species 25 & professionals Harpham, Jeanne Nakamura & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Patrick Bateson The origins of human differences 36 Damon, Anne Colby, Kendall Bronk & Thomas Ehrlich, and Harvey Goldman Donald E. 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Feinberg, and Courtney Jung notes Charles Altieri on dif½culty in contemporary American poetry 113 Lynn Margulis on syphilis & the nature of Nietzsche’s madness 118 plus poetry by Rachel Hadas, Franz Wright, W. S. Merwin, Charles Wright, Peg Boyers, Jorie Graham &c.; ½ction by Sigrid Nunez, Margaret Atwood, R. Edmund &c.; and notes by Donald Green, Shelley Taylor, Robert F. Nagel, Philip L. Quinn, Jeri Laber, Morris E. Fine, Michael Wood, Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Peter Hohendahl, Allan Basbaum, Rita Colwell &c. U.S. $13 www.amacad.org Inside front cover: Nasty, brutish, and short: a tipple turns ugly in the Wild West. A still from a silent-era Western ½lm. See Jonathan Haidt & Craig Joseph on Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues, pages 55–66: “People love to exercise their third-party moral intuitions so much that they pay money to see and hear stories about ½ctional strangers who do bad things to each other.” Photograph © Bettmann/Corbis. 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People's beliefs deny that human nature existed at all - about the relative importance of heredi to aver, with Jos? Ortega y Gasset, that ty and environment affect their opinions "Man has no nature; what he has is his on an astonishing range of topics. Do tory." The doctrine that the mind is a adolescents engage in violence because blank slate was not only a cornerstone of the way their parents treated them of behaviorism in psychology and social early in life ? Are people inherently ag constructionism in