When John Brockman's essay, "The New Humanists" appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, EDGE (www.edge.org), he received a record number of responses from the intellectuals of the EDGE community. In his essay, Brockman noted that the American intellectual had become...
Some of the top scientists of today--the geographer Jared Diamond, the linguist Steven Pinker, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Marvin Minsky, Lee Smolin, among others--discuss the unique contributions each is making to the development of modern thought. Some of these thinkers...