Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will

Julien Crockett is an intellectual property attorney and the science and law editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He runs the Los Angeles Review of Books column The Rules We Live By, exploring what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set of rules.

Julien Crockett

Everything Is Embedded in What Came Before: A Conversation with Robert M. Sapolsky

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

In Praise of Failure and Storytelling: A Conversation with Costica Bradatan

The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science

Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman

Data in the Hands of Profiteers: A Conversation with Mary F. E. Ebeling

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning

Kevin Davies is the author of Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing. He is a molecular geneticist turned science writer, the founding editor of Nature Genetics, and currently the executive editor of The CRISPR Journal.&nbsp;

Kevin Davies

John Dupré is professor of the philosophy of science, University of Exeter and director of Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, which he founded in 2002. He received a PhD from Cambridge in 1981, and has subsequently worked at Oxford, Stanford, and Birkbeck College, London before moving to Exeter. His books include The Disorder of Things&nbsp;(1993),&nbsp;Human Nature and the Limits of Science&nbsp;(2001),&nbsp;Darwin’s Legacy&nbsp;(2003), and&nbsp;Processes of Life&nbsp;(2012). His recent work has advocated a radically processual understanding of living systems, which is explored in a book co-edited with Daniel Nicholson,&nbsp;Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology&nbsp;(2018, open access), and in&nbsp;The Metaphysics of Biology, due to be published this month. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the president of the Philosophy of Science Association. Photo by Guido Castagnoli.

John Dupré

Hank Greely is the author of CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans. He's a law professor and director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University.&nbsp;

Hank Greely

Eben Kirksey is the author of The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modified Humans. He's an American anthropologist and a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Eben Kirksey

Amy Webb is the author of the forthcoming book The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. She as a quantitative futurist, the founder of the Future Today Institute, and professor of strategic foresight at NYU's Stern School of Business.&nbsp;

Amy Webb

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “What Comes After CRISPR?”

AI Superpowers

Innovation in China

Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Changemakers, and Underdogs

A Chinese Silicon Valley? Not So Fast

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Michele Pridmore-Brown is a scholar with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at UC Berkeley and the Science Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Los Angeles Review of Books Digital Editions – The Digital Revolution:   Debating the Promise and Perils of the Internet and Algorithmic Lives in the Last Years of the Obama Administration

The Restless Clock

Can a Machine Be Alive?

Screening Room

Looking for Meaning — Alan Lightman Reimagines His Southern Home

Julien Crockett is an intellectual property attorney and the science and law editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He runs the Los Angeles Review of Books column The Rules We Live By, exploring what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set of rules.

Julien Crockett

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