Daedalus articles from March 2002

Daedalus archives from March 2002

Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Daedalus was founded in 1955 and established as a quarterly in 1958. The journal's namesake was renowned in ancient Greece as an inventor, scientist, and unriddler of riddles. Its emblem,...

The law & economics of intellectual property.
March 22, 2002... Legal disputes over intellectual property have exploded in recent years. No field of law is in greater ferment. And in no field of law have judges and scholars experienced more difficulty recently in getting their bearings. The increase in...

Fencing off ideas: enclosure & the disappearance of the public domain.
March 22, 2002... The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves...

The rise of intellectual property, 700 B.C.--A.D. 2000: an idea in the balance.
March 22, 2002... The concept of intellectual property -- the idea that an idea can be owned - is a child of the European Enlightenment. It was only when people began to believe that knowledge came from the human mind working upon the senses -- rather than...

On Diderot & Condorcet.(Denis Diderot, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The texts that follow are excerpts from two seminal documents of the Enlightenment debate about intellectual property that Carla Hesse recounts in her essay in this volume, and that Roger Chartier analyzes in detail in his contribution. The...

Letter on the book trade: excerpts selected and translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
March 22, 2002... I shall begin by saying that the question here is not simply one of the interests of a guild. What does it matter to me if there is one guild more or less? Can this possibly concern me, one of the most zealous proponents of liberty in the...

Fragments concerning freedom of the press: excerpts selected and translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
March 22, 2002... Does a man have the right to prevent another man from writing the same things that he himself wrote first? That is the question to be resolved. Indeed, one feels that there can be no relation between the ownership of a work and that of a field...

Property & privilege in the republic of letters: translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
March 22, 2002... In the fall of 1763, Denis Diderot, the French philosophe then in the midst of compiling his famous Encyclopedia, drafted a brief to which he gave several successive tides. In preparing a fair copy of the manuscript in early 1764, he corrected...

Pop music pirate hunters.
March 22, 2002... It is the beginning of a new century, and the music industry is facing a crisis. New technology and innovative business practices are challenging the copyright principles that have underpinned the industry for as long as anyone can remember....

Of mice & money: the story of the world's first animal patent.
March 22, 2002... In April of 1988, the United States Patent and Trademarks Office issued the first patent on a living animal in the history of the world's patent systems. Awarded to Harvard University, the patent covers a laboratory mouse that one of its...

Public vs. proprietary science: a fruitful tension?
March 22, 2002... What should be public and what should be private in scientific research? The competitive sprint of public and private laboratories to complete the sequence of the human genome has brought this question to the fore. The same question frames...

Patents, profits & American medicine: conflicts of interest in the testing & marketing of new drugs.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... In the fall of 2001, the editors of thirteen of the world's medical journals made headlines when they jointly announced that they would not publish research reports about new prescription drugs unless the authors provided assurance that they...

Unapproved road.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Unapproved road. Poem by Paul Muldoon I When we came to the customs post at Aughnacloy, as at Cullaville or Pettigoe, I was holding my breath as if I might yet again be about to go underwater... The fortieth...

The rescue mission.(Short Story)
March 22, 2002... I worked hard, that year, at jobs that repaid me only in wages. I received no pleasure from what I did, and no one praised or honored me. But no one struck me, either, and I was forced to wake up in the early afternoon, to shave and bathe, to...

On the Kamasutra.
March 22, 2002... The Kamasutra, which many people regard as the paradigmatic textbook for sex, was composed in North India, probably in the third century C.E., in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India. There is nothing remotely like it even now, and...

On McCarthyism at Berkeley: the enemy is us.(on repression of free expression at University of California at Berkeley)(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... As a longtime statistician, I'm concerned about the persistent gap between black and white SAT scores even after correcting for income and the socioeconomic status of parents. Recendy I asked a fellow faculty member, a developmental...

On Darwin & sociological theory today.
March 22, 2002... Sociological theory has been significantly influenced by biological theory ever since the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859. But although Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer both paid tribute to Darwin, neither the...

On poetry & the language of science.
March 22, 2002... There was a time when poetry and science -- these two luxuriating, contraentropic glories of the human spirit -- walked hand in hand: See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, the sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist...

Terrorism & evil. (Letters to the Editor).
March 22, 2002... February 24, 2002 To the Editor: I was dissatisfied by the "comment" by Ira Katznelson on "Evil & politics," in the Winter 2002 issue of Daedalus. The essay's importance is underlined by its placement at the beginning of the first...

Regarding the word "race". (Letters to the Editor).
March 22, 2002... March 1, 2002 To the Editor: In their essays in the Winter 2002 issue of Doedalus, both James F. Crow and Ernst Mayr dwell on the concept of race. Both recognize that it is a geographic concept, a concept that embraces...

The virtues of inequality. (Letters to the Editor).
March 22, 2002... February 25, 2002 To the Editor: I have read the Winter 2002 issue of Dcedalus on inequality and find myself both disappointed and puzzled by it. With the exception of Christopher Jencks, no one attempted to address the effects or...