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Keynote Speaker Published in Science MagazineOne of NEI’s Keynote speakers at this summer’s conference on Religion, Cognitive Science, and Evolutionary Psychology, Scott Atran, has a fascinating article in Science entitled: "Genesis of Suicide Terrorism"
Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopathology and are as educated and economically well-off as surrounding populations. A frst line of defense is to get the communities from which suicide attackers stem to stop the attacks by learning how to minimize the receptivity of mostly ordinary people to recruiting organizations. Science Magazine Science Vol 299 7 March 20Announcing a New Distinguished Fellow
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.
Karl H. Pribram, M.D., Ph.D., one of the world's most eminent neuroscientists, and one of the founding fathers of the cognitive revolution has accepted our invitation as an NEI Distinguished Fellow. Though he replied, “I feel honored to be invited to join such a distinguished group and to try to contribute to our joint interests in whatever way I can,” it is NEI who is honored by his joining us, recognizing the significance of our evolutionary approach to cognition.
Click here for his biography.
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