Susan Jane Blackmore is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her books Consciousness: An Introduction and The Meme Machine. Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, with a degree in psychology and physiology. She went on to do postgraduate study in environmental psychology at…
Stephen L. Chorover is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. His graduate training was in the field of neuropsychology, and his current research interests focus on the problem of understanding relations between the organization and development of the central nervous system (and especially the brain), on the one…
Ned Block is an American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in…
Stephen E. Braude is an American philosopher and parapsychologist. He is a past president of the Parapsychological Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Braude received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971. After working as a…
Deirdre Barrett, PhD is an author and psychologist and teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is known for her research on dreams, hypnosis, and imagery and has written on evolutionary psychology. Barrett is a Past President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams and of the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society…
Rodney Allen Brooks is the former Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers that have brought on a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research. Brooks formerly served as Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From July 1,…
Roy F. Baumeister is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. He is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and free will. He has authored 500 publications and has written, co-written, or edited almost 30 books.…
Dr. Robert Bilder is Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Professor of Psychology at UCLA. He is also Chief of Medical Psychology – Neuropsychology and Director of the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity in the Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Bilder received a bachelors degree…
Professor Colin Blakemore, Ph.D, FRS, FMedSci, HonFSB, HonFRCP, was a British neurobiologist who was Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick specializing in vision and the development of the brain. Blakemore was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at…
Justin L. Barrett is President of nonprofit Blueprint 1543, developing initiatives and scholarship at the intersection of religion and the sciences. He previously held positions at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology as Professor of Psychology and leading the Office for Science, Theology, and Religion, as well as the Thrive Center for Human Development prior to…
Warren S. Brown is founder and previous director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He is also a previous member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from the University of Southern…
Tim Bayne is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. He is a Senior Fellow in the CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. He is the author of several books including Philosophy of Mind, The Unity of Consciousness, and Thought: A Very Short Introduction. He is also editor of Delusion and Self-Deception, The Oxford Companion…