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Richard D. Alexander, Ph.D., distinguished zoologist received his Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University in 1956. The University of Michigan awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1981 and the Amoco Foundation Good Teaching Award in 1977. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of his other awards are: the LSA Senior Distinguished Lecturer in 1994; the University of Michigan Russell Lectureship in 1988; the Alfred Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1971; a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968-69; and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1961. He is the past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and is currently Professor Emeritus of Zoology in the Division of Biological Sciences and the curator of insects at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan.
Dr. Alexander studies the biology and systematics of crickets, katydids, and cicadas. He also formulates and tests hypotheses from evolutionary theory to help explain animal and human behavior. His insect studies have centered on acoustical communication, sexual behavior, speciation, and life history analysis. His human studies have been designed to test whether the most difficult questions that can be formulated are approachable from an evolutionary perspective. He has also studied the social behavior of naked mole rats and horses. He is the author of two highly acclaimed books on the evolutionary understanding of human behavior: Darwinism and Human Affairs (Seattle: Univ. Washington Press, 1979) and The Biology of Moral Systems (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1987) as well as a number of seminal scientific papers. WebsitePaul Bach-y-Rita, M.D. is professor of rehabilitation medicine and of biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He is also chief scientist and chairman of the board of Wicab. His discoveries have enabled the blind to see, the victims of leprosy to feel, and the quadriplegic to enjoy sex. Website and an additional website.
Christopher Robert Badcock, Ph.D., is reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Although he is a sociologist by training, Badcock's research interests lie in evolutionary psychology and modern Darwinism. He has rejected the standard social sciences model in favor of an interdisciplinary approach drawing on biological theories and methods, and has pioneered the reinterpretation of psychodynamic theory in light of biological thinking. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from LSE in 1973, was lecturer in sociology at the Polytechnic of the South Bank from 1969-73, and was appointed to the staff of the LSE Sociology Department in 1974. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is A Critical Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology (Polity Press, Cambridge) and has published widely on Levi-Strauss, evolutionary psychology and psychodynamic thinking. Website
Linda A.W. Brakel, M.D., is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She received her MD from Tufts School of Medicine. Dr. Brakel has an interest in a-rational mental processes that are outside of conscious awareness. This interest cuts across several disciplines including psychoanalysis, cognitive and developmental psychology, and the philosophy of mind. She has collaborated in several major studies on unconscious mental processing, and has written on the interface between cognitive science, philosophy of mind and psychodynamic thinking. She is the author (with H. Shevrin; J. Bond; R. Hertel and W. Williams) of Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Neuro-physiological Convergences (New York: Guilford Press, 1996) as well as a number of papers on the interface between philosophy, cognitive science and psychodynamic thinking.
Wilma S. Bucci, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in developmental and cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics from New York University. She is professor of psychology at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. Her research interests include psychometric methods, cognition and psychodynamic and psycholinguistic research. Bucci has pioneered the integration of psychodynamic thinking with cognitive science, and has developed methods of doing quantitative research into unconscious processes. She has published numerous papers on psycholinguistics, cognitive science, psychodynamics and psychotherapy research. Her book Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory was published in 1997 by Guilford Press. Website
David M. Buss, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Buss was elected to be a fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in 1986. In 1996, he began teaching psychology at the University of Texas in Austin. His research focuses on such aspects of the human personality as sexuality and its relationship to sexual selection as presented in Darwin's human evolution theory. He has been active on many different boards and directorships, having served on the Board of Directors for the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (1995-1998), the Executive Council for Human Behavior and Evolution Society (1994-1998), and as director of the International Consortium of Social and Personality Psychologists (1990-present). He won the Hoopes Prize for Supervising Award-Winning Summa Cum Laude Honors Thesis at Harvard University in 1984. In 1988, he won the A.P.A. distinguished scientific award for early career contribution to psychology. In 1989, Buss won the distinguished faculty recognition award from the University of Michigan and the G. Stanley Hall Award by the American Psychological Association in 1990. Some of his honors include being placed in the Who's Who in American Education, keynote speaker for several different events, and a lecturer for the Louis Clark Vanuxem at Princeton University in March of 1990. His publications include The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex; The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies Of Human Mating; and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science Of The Mind. Website
John Caulfield, Ph.D. is adjunct distinguished research professor at Fisk University, he authored the 1984 National Geographic cover story on holography. Business Week called him "One of America's 10 Top Scientists"; Byte magazine called him "One of the Most Influential People in the World in Minicomputers" and Fortune magazine recognized him as, "A Pioneer on Optical Processing."
Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., is institute professor of linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, and philosophy of language at MIT. He was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, when he began what would be his long teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His book Syntactic Structures (1957) was credited with revolutionizing the discipline of linguistics. Outside this highly rarefied sphere, Chomsky early on began to promote his radical critique of American political, social, and economic policies, particularly of American foreign policy. His extensive writings in this area include American Power and the New Mandarins (1969) and Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (1978). He is the author of over 60 books and numerous papers on linguistics, philosophy and politics, and has received 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards for his scientific and political writings. Website
Patricia Smith Churchland, Ph.D., one of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy of mind and philosophy of neuroscience, is chair of the Philosophy Department and the UC President's Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of neuroscience at the Salk Institute.Churchland is the past president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Earlier, she was a professor at the University of Manitoba for more than 10 years and a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University during 1982-83. Her publications include Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain (MIT Press, 1986), The Computational Brain (with T. J. Sejnowski, MIT Press, 1992), On the Contrary (with Paul M. Churchland, MIT Press, 1998) and Brainwise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (MIT Press, 2002). Website.
Richard Dawkins, Ph.D., is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. A graduate of Oxford, he did his doctorate under the Nobel-prizewinning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. In 1967 he was appointed assistant professor of zoology at the University of California at Berkeley, returning to Oxford in 1969. He has been a fellow of New College since 1970. Dawkins's first book, The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition, 1989) became an immediate bestseller and has been translated into all the major languages. The Blind Watchmaker (1986) won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Prize, both in 1987. His other bestsellers include River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). In addition to the International Cosmos Prize, Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990) and the Kistler Prize (2001). He delivered the Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television in England, entitled "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder." Richard Dawkins won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize in 1987 for The Blind Watchmaker. The television film of the book, shown in the 'Horizon' series, won the Sci-Tech Prize for the Best Science Program of 1987. Website
Daniel C. Dennett, D.Phil., is one of America’s most eminent philosophers. He is distinguished arts and sciences professor, professor of philosophy, and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He obtained his D.Phil. in philosophy at Oxford University in 1965 and taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the Ecole Normal Superieur in Paris. He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavid David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He was the co-founder (in 1985) and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He is the author of nine books, the most recent of which is Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998) and many papers on philosophy, cognitive science and Darwinism. Website
Edward Erwin, Ph.D., was educated at the City College of New York where he received a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in philosophy and at The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy. He joined the University of Miami Philosophy Department in 1974, after teaching at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was the 1998 Matchette Lecturer, Loras College. He is an internationally known philosophical writer on the philosophy of psychology and philosophical critic of psychotherapy. He is the author of five books and editor-in-chief of the forthcoming The Freud Encyclopedia: Theories, Therapy, and Culture (Routledge, 2001) as well as numerous papers on the philosophy of science and, in particular, scientific and philosophical critiques of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Website
Paul Gilbert, Ph.D., received his Ph.D., in depression and cognition from the University of Edinborough. He is presently professor of psychology at the University of Derby. Gilbert has a particular research interest in the evolutionary and cognitive understanding of psychopathology, particularly depression, and has written extensively on this subject. He has written and co-edited 13 books, the most recent of which is Subordination and Defeat. An Evolutionary Approach to Mood Disorders (Lawrence Erlbaum) and is associate editor for the British Journal of Medical Psychology. In addition to mood disorders, Gilbert is currently researching shame, social anxiety and evolutionary psychotherapy. Website
Douglas R. Hofstadter is college professor of computer science and cognitive science, director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, and adjunct professor of philosophy, psychology, comparative literature, and the history and philosophy of science at Indiana University. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University and his MS and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon. He has written seven books including his Pulitzer-prize-winning volume, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979) which has had considerable impact on people in many disciplines ranging from philosophy to mathematics to artificial intelligence to music. He has also written Metamagical Themas: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (NY: Basic Books), and numerous articles. For a number of years he wrote a column for Scientific American. Hofstadter's research is driven by his long-standing interest in creativity and consciousness, the relationship between words and concepts, the mechanisms underlying human error-making, processes underlying discovery and creation in mathematics, music, the relationship between analogy and translation, as well as the challenge of sorting the wheat from the chaff in AI and cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind.
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Website
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California at Davis. Her Ph.D. research at Harvard investigated infanticidal behavior in male langur monkeys and was published as The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction (1977). Her subsequent book, The Woman that Never Evolved was selected by the New York Times as one of the Notable Books of 1981. Her CO-edited volume Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives, selected by Choice as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books" of that year. On the basis of this work, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an elected fellow of the Animal Behavior Society. Hrdy served as editor of the Foundation of Human Behavior book series and continues to serve on editorial boards for The American Journal of Primatology, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Human Nature. Her book Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection (New York: Pantheon) was chosen by both Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal as one of the "Best Books of 1999". Hrdy's work has played a significant role in the ongoing reappraisal among evolutionists of what it means to be female. Website
Nicholas Humphrey, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in psychology from Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1964 he discovered the existence of a previously unsuspected capacity for vision after total lesions of the striate cortex in monkeys (a capacity which, when it was later confirmed in human beings, came to be called "blindsight"). In 1967 he moved to the Institute of Psychology at Oxford, but returned to Cambridge in 1970 as assistant director of research in the Sub-Department of Animal Behavior. Dr. Humphrey developed a theory of the function of the appreciation of beauty (which, in a popular version broadcast on radio won the Glaxo science-writing award). In 1975 he published the "Social Function of Intellect", which became the subject of several conferences, and was reprinted many times. Since then, he has focused, increasingly, on the problem of the evolution of consciousness. In 1986 Humphrey made a major television series for Channel Four in Britain about the origins of the human mind (‘The Inner Eye’). In 1995 he took up a post in New York, as professor of psychology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. As of January 1999 he has been based in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. His most recent book is Soul Searching: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief (Chatto & Windus 1995, Vintage 1996, Basic Books 1996, Copernicus 1999). Website
Ray S. Jackendoff, Ph.D., is professor of linguistics at Brandeis University. Since the late 1960's, when he studied at MIT under Noam Chomsky, he has been a leading figure in research on the structure of language and the organization of concepts. His theory of conceptual semantics has been developed in his books Semantics and Cognition, Semantic Structures, and Languages of the Mind, as well as in numerous articles. His book Consciousness and the Computational Mind has attracted the attention of philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists as well as linguists and psychologists. In collaboration with composer Fred Lerdahl, he has written A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, which develops a mental grammar of music that has become a major paradigm in the study of musical perception. His most recent book is The Architecture of the Language Faculty. Jackendoff's research deals with the semantics of natural language, its bearing on the formal structure of cognition, and its lexical and syntactic expression. He has also done extensive research on the relationship between conscious awareness and the computational theory of mind and on syntactic theory. Website
Stephen W. Kercel, Ph.D., P.E. is a researcher in intelligent instrumentation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Published widely, he has won research and development awards for real-time implementations of wavelet-based sensors, and conducts research on "bizarre systems," among which is the human brain.
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D., is professor of psychology, Harvard University where he holds the elected John Lindsley Professor of Psychology position, established in honor of William James, and has been the recipient of many national and international honors and awards including the National Academy of Sciences, Initiatives in Research Award for work in the Social and Behavioral sciences. He is also director of the Kosslyn laboratory. Best known for his pioneering work on the neuroscience of visual mental imagery, he is both an elected fellow and member-at-large of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on numerous editorial boards of scientific journals, and is the principal investigator for multiple funding agencies, as well as active on national and internal committees and boards. He is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters, nine books, and 12 edited volumes, among the former: Image and Mind (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press), Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (New York: W. W. Norton), Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience (New York: The Free Press), is co-author of a new Abnormal Psychology text: The Brain, the Person, the World (Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon). Website
David Lahti, PhD. is a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Lahti received a Ph.D in philosophy at the Whitefield Institute at Oxford in 1998, for work on the relationship between science and the foundations of morality; more recently his research in this area has focused on the evolution of morality. In 2003 he received a Ph.D in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan, where he documented rapid evolution in the African village weaverbird. From 2003 to 2005 he held the Darwin Fellowship at the Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has been studying the evolution and development of bird song. His recent and forthcoming publications include "You have heard… but I tell you…": a test of the adaptive significance of moral evolution. In J. Schloss and P. Clayton (eds.) /Evolution, Morality, and Human Nature/. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, in press; 'The better angels of our nature: group stability and the origin of moral tension.' /Evolution and Human Behavior/, 26 [2005]: 47-63 'Parting with illusions in evolutionary ethics'. /Biology and Philosophy/ *18* [2003]: 639-651 as well as numerous papers on avian behavior and evolution. Website
George P. Lakoff, Ph.D., is professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics from Indiana University in 1966 He has been professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley since 1972, where he is on the faculty of the Institute of Cognitive Studies. He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. His current research covers many areas of conceptual analysis within cognitive linguistics. His publications include Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson) Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980; Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, University of Chicago Press, 1987; More Than Cool Reason, (with Mark Turner) Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989; Moral Politics, University of Chicago Press, 1996; Philosophy in The Flesh, Basic Books, 1999 and Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being, (with Rafael Núñez), Basic Books. 2000. Website
John Lemons, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming. He is professor of biology and environmental science at the University of New England. Lemons is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as editor-in-chief of The Environmental Professional. In 1994 he received a Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Environmental Professionals. Lemons is working with the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations located at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he is directing a Global Environment Facility-funded project "Promoting Best Practices for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Global Significance in Arid and SemiArid Zones." He has edited and co-edited seven books, the most recent of which is Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches. (Kluwer) with L. Westra, and R. Goodland, as well as the author of many papers on aspects of environmental science. Website
Steven Mithen, Ph.D., is professor of early prehistory in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading, U.K.. His research interests include evolutionary theory, human evolution, prehistoric hunters and gatherers, cognition, and the use of computers in archaeology. He is the author of Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making (1990), and The Prehistory of the Mind (1996, 1998), and the editor of Human Creativity in Evolution and Prehistory (1998). Steven Mithen directed a series of excavations on hunter-gatherer sites in Western Scotland. He combined that work with a series of paleo-environmental and computer simulation studies, which will be published in a large monograph entitled Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology by the University of Cambridge's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in December 2000. His current fieldwork is in Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan where he directs excavations on a 10,000-year-old (final Pleistocene/early Holocene) hunter-gatherer settlement. At Reading University he runs a master's degree in cognitive evolution which integrates teaching from archaeology, psychology, philosophy and psychology. Website
Randolph Nesse, M.D., received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School. He is professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan; research associate at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and director of the ISR Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. Dr. Nesse’s primary specific research goal is to discover how natural selection shaped the capacity for mood in order to better understand how mood is regulated, why depression is so prevalent and what we can do about it. He is also working to understand the role of subjective commitment in modulating human relationships. If natural selection has shaped capacities for subjective commitment, study of these mechanisms could help to bridge the gap between evolutionary approaches to human behavior based on kin selection/reciprocity and the complexity, emotionality, and morality that we observe in human relationships. Dr. Nesse is the co-author (with George Williams) of: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Times Books) and numerous papers on evolutionary medicine and psychiatry. Website
Steven Pinker, Ph.D., is one of America’s most eminent cognitive scientists. He is the Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at MIT. His research includes both studies of linguistic behavior and theoretical analyses of the nature of language and its relation to mind and brain and studies of specific modules of grammar from a variety of disciplines. Currently, he and his group are studying inflectional morphology. On the theoretical side, he has used linguistic and psycholinguistic data to develop a comprehensive model of the acquisition of grammar and lexicon, and to analyze issues such as the role of symbolic and connectionist computational architectures in language, the evolution of human language, and the nature of conceptual categories. Pinker was named one of Newsweek's "100 Americans for the Next Century" and is included in Esquire's "Register of Outstanding Men and Women." Pinker has received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. His book The Language Instinct was voted one of the One Hundred Best Science Books of the Century by American Scientist. Website
Karl H. Pribram, M.D., Ph.D. is one of the world's most eminent neuroscientists and one of the founding fathers of the cognitive revolution. He is currently, Distinguished Research Professor in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. Born in Vienna, Dr. Pribram earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago. He also holds honorary Ph.D.s in psychology from the University of Montreal and in philosophy from the University of Bremen. Karl Pribram was trained as a neurosurgeon and then devoted his career to elucidating the structure and function of the cerebral cortex, relating human clinical experience to his neurophysiological and neurobehavioral studies on nonhuman primates. He discovered the visual functions of the temporal lobe and the relationship of the anterior frontal cortex to the limbic system. Dr. Pribram has authored numerous ground-breaking books and hundreds of articles. Dr. Pribram has been president of the International Neuropsychological Society (1967), and president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Physiological and Comparative Psychology (1967_1968) and Division of Theological and Philosophical Psychology (1979_1980). He is recipient of the Menfred Sakel Award of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (1976), the Realia Honor of the Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research (1986), the Outstanding Contributions Award of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists (1990), the Neural Network Leardership Award of International Neural Network Society (1994) and the first Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Prize awarded by the president of the Czech Republic.
Arthur S. Reber, Ph.D., is Broeklundian Professor of Psychology and head of Ph.D. program in experimental psychology at Brooklyn College of CUNY. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Brown University. Reber’s research interests include cognitive foundations of complex learning, implicit learning, philosophical psychology, and lexicography. His primary research focus is implicit learning and unconscious cognitive processes, involving experimental and theoretical work on the acquisition of knowledge about complex, rule-governed systems. The theory that drives this research is based on fundamental principles of evolutionary biology. In addition the work is seen as contributing to an understanding of affect, attention, intelligence, problem-solving ability, and human intuition. It has application to special populations including infants, young children, and a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders. His most recent book is Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious (Oxford University Press). Website
Mark Solms, Ph.D., has pioneered the integration of cognitive-affective neuroscience with psychodynamic thought. Solms received his Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is honorary lecturer at the Academic Department of Neurosurgery, St Bartholomew's & Royal London Hospital (Hon Lecturer); lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University College London (Lecturer) and consultant neuropsychologist at the Anna Freud Center. He is editor and translator of the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (The Institute of Psycho-Analysis & H. Karnac Books) and the Revised Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, The Hogarth Press & W.W. Norton & Co.) He also edits the journal Neuro-psychoanalysis and has published widely on neuropsychology and psychoanalysis and is the author of the forthcoming Pathological Neuropsychology: A Handbook of Behavioural Neurology on Clinico-Pathological Principles (Cambridge University Press).
Dan Sperber, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist. He is research professor and director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France. Sperber has made important contributions to the study of linguistics, cognition, evolutionary psychology and culture. He is the author of Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge UP 1975), On Anthropological Knowledge (Cambridge UP 1985), and Explaining Culture (Blackwell 1996), in which he develops and approach to culture called the "epidemiology of representations." He is also co-author, with Deirdre Wilson, of Relevance: Communication and Cognition ( Blackwell 1986 - Second Revised Edition, 1995). Sperber and Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication known as "relevance theory." Both the epidemiology of representations and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial. Sperber has held visiting positions at Cambridge University, the British Academy, the London School of Economics, the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, the Institute for Advnced Study in Princeton, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the Duxx School in Monterrey, and the University of Hong-Kong. Website
Robert L Trivers, Ph.D., is one of the world’s most eminent evolutionary biologists. Trivers received his doctorate in biology from Harvard University. After publishing groundbreaking papers on the evolution of social behavior he was offered a teaching position at Harvard, where he worked from 1973 to 1978. After 1978, he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz and latterly to Rutgers University, where he is professor of anthropology and biological sciences. In the 1970's Trivers authored seminal theoretical papers regarding social evolution. These contributions, and others, changed the way many researchers approached the study of organisms. Trivers' is currently engaged in research into fluctuating asymmetry in human beings, genomic imprinting and intra-genomic conflict. Trivers’ work on social evolution, the evolution of deception and self deception, reciprocal altruism and parental investment theory have had a huge impact on biological thinking, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary anthropology and ethics. He is the author of Social Evolution (Benjamin Cummings) and the forthcoming Genes in Conflict (Harvard University Press) with A. Burt. Website
Mark Turner, Ph.D., is institute professor and dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. His Ph.D. in English and his M.A. in mathematics are from University of California at Berkeley. He is external research professor of cognitive science for the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996, the Académie Française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. He works on higher order cognitive performances that distinguish human beings from other species and which seem to have arisen during the Upper Paleolithic. His research areas include studies of choice, analogy, counterfactual reasoning, creativity, invention, global insight, conceptual and linguistic systems, the origin of language, material anchors for thought, distributed cognition, figure and narrative in thought and language, evolutionary theory of meaning, poetics, style, and the literary mind. His books and articles include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science (Oxford), The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Oxford), and Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton). Website
George C. Williams, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at SUNY Stony Brook. Williams is widely recognized as one of evolutionary biology's most distinguished scholars, and was described in Scientific American as "one of the great evolutionary biologists of this century." He worked for many years on the evolutionary biology of fishes, and is a noted contributor to the literature on the evolution of sex. Williams is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded its Elliot Medal. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow. He was the editor of the American Naturalist and the Quarterly Review of Biology and was the president of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Williams was selected Eminent Ecologist for 1989 by the Ecological Society of America and was awarded the prestigious Crafoord Prize by the Swedish Academy of Sciences for his fundamental contributions to evolutionary biology. Few laypeople have heard of Williams. Yet nearly all evolutionary biologists, even those who do not agree with him, admire him. Williams was the first to emphasize that it was the gene on which natural selection acted. In this regard, he precedes Richard Dawkins, with whom he shares a great many ideas. His publications include Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges (Oxford, 1992) Sex and Evolution (Princeton, 1975), Why We Get Sick (with Randolph Nesse; Vintage, 1994) and the classic Adaptation and Natural Selection (Princeton, 1966) which refuted the then prevalent idea of group selection. Website
Robert E. Haskell, Ph.D., is currently professor of psychology, former chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the University of New England. He is co-founder and associate director of The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, and serves as advisor to the dean for faculty research and scholarship. His areas of research include: invariance relations involved in analogical/ metaphorical reasoning, transfer of learning and unconscious language and cognition. He has developed a unique and systematic methodology for the analysis and validation of sub-literal language. He is the author of 50 research articles in national and international journals and seven books. His work reflects his interest in philosophy of science and epistemology as they contribute to research methods, and in particular the integration between laboratory research, everyday life and psychotherapeutic settings. Website
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., is visiting professor of psychology at the University of New England. He was formerly interim dean and director of the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in counseling and psychotherapy at Regent’’s College in London, England. He is co-founder and director of The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology. Smith has practiced as psychotherapist for more than 20 years and continues to supervise clinical practitioners. He is the author of Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis (Rebus, 1999), Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course (Karnac, 1999), Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious (Kluwer, 1999) and Psychoanalysis in Question (Sage, forthcoming) as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters, and has acted as a consultant to the national governments of the United Kingdom and Austria on matters relating to the regulation and licensing of psychotherapists. Website
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