{"id":2083,"date":"2016-11-18T23:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2016-11-19T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T07:53:24","slug":"best-australian-science-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/best-australian-science-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Australian Science Writing 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim&#8217;s essay &#8220;I Feel Therefore I Am&#8221; is included in\u00a0<em>Best Australian Science Writing 2016.<\/em> Wertheim&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-and-why-exactly-did-consciousness-become-a-problem\">essay<\/a>, originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\"><em>Aeon<\/em><\/a>, the acclaimed international online journal of ideas, traces the history of how consciousness came to be conceived as a scientific problem. Tracing the roots of scientific thinking about thinking back to Descartes and Gallieo, the essay embeds the topic of consciousness into a wider story about science&#8217;s claims to comprehensively explain the nature of the real.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best Australian Science Writing 2016,<\/em> is edited by Jo Chandler, and includes essays by (among others) Biana Nogrady, Leah Kaminsky, Michael Slezak, Elizabeth Finkel, Wilson da Silva, Ashley Hay, and Nobel laureate Peter O&#8217;Doherty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copies may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsouthbooks.com.au\/books\/best-australian-science-writing-2016\/\">purchased<\/a>\u00a0 here from New South Press:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2084\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"9781742235035\" width=\"640\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035-768x1201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/9781742235035.jpg 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim&#8217;s essay &#8220;I Feel Therefore I Am&#8221; is included in\u00a0Best Australian Science Writing 2016. Wertheim&#8217;s essay, originally published in Aeon, the acclaimed international online journal of ideas, traces the history of how consciousness came to be conceived as a scientific problem. Tracing the roots of scientific thinking about thinking back to Descartes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}