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John Wylie ’64 publishes updated article on the human soul

March 21, 2022

With the turmoil in Russia, John Wylie ’64 contacted the Russian publisher for Logos (a Russian journal of philosophy and the humanities) to see if they were going to publish his latest version of “The Origin of the Human Soul: Making Sense of Emotional Fossils.” (See an earlier story on this topic.)

John emailed: “I was worried that the Russian philosophical journal, Logos, would pull out of publishing my essay due to the war, so I had the translator write them, and her response is below. Perhaps the essay will strike a chord over there at this particular time.”

Yes, we will definitely publish the article. The growing sense of the fatality of the catastrophe (it seems that the planet is a little tired and just wants to shake off this annoying species of sapiens in order to again enjoy the wind in the crowns of trees and the regularity of the waves alone) leaves us little — favorite things and the warmth of communication,

Founded in 1991, Logos is a leading Russian-language bimonthly journal on philosophy, social and human sciences, and cultural studies distributed among philosophers, scholars, and most important libraries in Russia and abroad. 

John Wylie holds a BA in history from Yale, an MD from Columbia, and completed a psychiatric residency at Georgetown University. He began his career at a maximum-security prison in Maryland, followed by 35 years in the private practice of psychiatry in Washington DC, where he served as chair of the department of psychiatry at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Dr. Wylie was a founding member of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and has had a longstanding interest in the relationship of mental illness and human evolution.