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THE HUMAN PROSPECT:
A Neo-Humanist Perspective
The Institute for Science and Human Values (ISHV) publishes a quarterly journal called The Human Prospect: A
Neo-Humanist Perspective.
The journal focuses on the
promotion of human values and how to foster those values
throughout society. Moreover, the journal deals with
scientific issues and their impact upon and relationship to
society.
The journal features articles, essays, book reviews,
film reviews, reviews of television programs, etc. There
will also be news about conferences, cruises, seminars, and
other gatherings of interest to skeptics, secularists,
freethinkers, humanists, rationalists, and others.
Contributors will include experts in the fields of science,
philosophy, ethics, education, and other areas. However, we
also invite articles, items, letters to the editor, and
other submissions from our general readership.
Article Submission Guidelines
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CHAIRMAN: Paul Kurtz
EDITOR: Norm Allen
MANAGING EDITOR: Jesse Christopherson
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Nathan Bupp
J. Beth Ciesielski
Stanley Friedland
R. Joseph Hoffman
Robert Tapp
Vincent Parr
Toni Van Pelt
Layout & Cover Design
Liz Scinta |
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R. Joseph Hoffman is an associate editor of The
Human Prospect
R. Joseph Hoffmann will bring
his previous editing experience and strong
academic credentials to bear as an editor of
The Human Prospect,
the journal of the ISHV. He will play a key
role in building the journal’s stature as a
new, illuminating voice on the pressing
issues surrounding the intersection of
religion, science, society, and humanistic
values.
“The Institute seeks common
ground with people of faith and no faith,
those who reject dogmatism in all its
disguises, whether it come from religion,
politics, or the academy. People whose
primary interest is the creation of a "pact
of virtue" that will lead us into a future
of human values and human choices, and our
best selves,” continued Hoffmann.
R. Joseph Hoffmann is
Professor of Philosophy and Religion in the
Liberal Arts faculty of the New England
Conservatory in Boston. He has served as
Fulbright Professor in Lahore, Pakistan; as
distinguished scholar in Human Values at
Goddard College; and as Senior Vice
President (Academic) at the Center for
Inquiry. Hoffmann has taught at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
California State University Sacramento, and
was Campbell Professor of Humanities at
Wells College. His honorary
and visiting appointments include periods in
Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Melbourne,
Australia, and Papua New Guinea, where he
established the
first interdisciplinary program in
global religious studies and served as chair
of the Department of History. From
1999-2003, Hoffmann was Professor of
Civilization Studies at the American
University of Beirut, the Middle East's
oldest English-medium university. He
received his PhD from Oxford University
where he was tutor in Greek at Keble
College, Senior Scholar at St Cross College,
and later (1991-1999) Senior Lecturer in
Religious Studies and a member of the
Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. He
is a member of the American Academy of
Religion, the Society of Biblical
Literature, and a fellow of the Highlands
Institute for American Religious and
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Robert B. Tapp is an
associate editor of The Human
Prospect
Robert B. Tapp B.S., Ph.D. is
Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious
Studies, and South Asian Studies at the
University of Minnesota. Since retirement in
1996, he has been teaching at the Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute.
During his first appointment
(St. Lawrence University) in the 1950s he
pioneered courses on religions and the
sciences and religions and sexuality. Prior
to the 1961 merger of Unitarians and
Universalists, he chaired a study commission
on religion and science, and after the
1961merger he chaired a long-range planning
commission that conducted the then-largest
denominational survey (Religion Among the
Unitarian Universalists: Converts in the
Stepfather's House, 1973). He also
chaired a commission on inter-religious
dialogue for the International Association
for Religious Freedom (1967-73).
He was program co-chair for
"The Impact of Worldviews--Secular and
Religious--on the Sustainability of
Democracies" in Assisi, Italy, 2008 and is
on the planning committee for “Toward a
Reasonable World” in San Diego, 2011.
He was a founding member of
the North American Committee for Humanism in
1982. From 1993-2005 he was dean of The
Humanist Institute and editor of Humanism
Today. He was managing editor at the
founding of Zygon: Journal of Religion
and Science, and edited Humanism
Today (1996-2006), Multiculturalism (2000),
Ecohumanism (2002), and
The Fate of Democracy (2006)
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