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the past few decades, scientists and science </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">journalists have become increasingly fond of biological explanations </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">for human thought
and behavior, including such complex phenomena as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">religion, politics, economics, the arts, sex and mental illness. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">Researchers probing human nature focus on evolutionary adaptations, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">genes
and neurochemicals, while discounting the role of education, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">culture and even reason. Some scientists are even casting doubt on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">free
will, our ability to discern and choose among different</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">trajectories. Progressives as well as conservatives have embraced </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">these
reductionist views of humanity. Veteran science journalist John </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">Horgan will critique the new determinism, arguing that it is based on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">bad
science and may have adverse social, political and medical </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial">consequences.</span></p>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Biography</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:Tahoma">:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">John
Horgan is a science journalist who teaches and directs the Center </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">Jersey.
He is a columnist for Scientific American online and BBC </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">Knowledge Magazine and is a frequent contributor to the internet show </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">Bloggingheads.tv.
He has also written for The New York Times, Wall </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">Street Journal, BBC Knowledge, Chronicle of Higher Education, The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">London
Times and other publications around the world. His books </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">include The End of Science (1996), an international bestseller, The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">Undiscovered
Mind (1999), Rational Mysticism (2003) and The End of War </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">(2012). He has lectured at universities throughout the U.S. and Europe </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">and
has been interviewed on Charlie Rose, the Lehrer News Hour, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">National Public Radio, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News and other media outlets. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">He
graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium">in 1983.</span></div>
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