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NICHOLAS KEYNES HUMPHREY
18 Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1NB
Date of birth: 27th March 1943
Present position:
Emeritus School Professor, London School of Economics Education:
Westminster School, 1956-61, (Honorary Scholar, Ellershaw Scholar) Trinity College, Cambridge, 1961-67, (Open Scholar, Westminster Exhibitioner, Sam Waes Exhibitioner) Degrees:
B.A., Psychology and Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1964 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Cambridge, 1968 Academic career:
Demonstrator, Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, 1967-70 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1968-70 Assistant Director of Research, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, 1970-82 Fellow and Tutor for Graduates, King's College, Cambridge, 1974-79 Visiting Fellow, Center for Cognitive Studies, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, 1987-90 Visiting Fellow, Center on Violence and Human Survival, John Jay College, City University of New York, 1988-89 Research Group on Mind and Brain, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Bielefeld, 1990 Perrott-Warrick Senior Research Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge, 1992-95 Professor of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, 1995– 2005 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE, 1999-2001 School Professor, London School of Economics, 2001 – 2008 Advisory Board
Guggenheim Museum 2011 Editor of Granta magazine, 1963-64
Editorial Board
Journal of Consciousness Studies NeuroPsychoanalysis Evolutionary Psychology Societas Honours and Prizes: Glaxo Science Writer’s Prize, 1980 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, 1985 British Psychological Society Book Award, 1993 Pufendorf Medal, 2011 Festschrift 2006
Two-day conference at the Royal Society of London, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of NH’s “The Social Function of Intellect” (published as Social intelligence: from brain to culture, Phil Trans 2008) Distinguished Lectures
Lister Lecture, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977 BBC Bronowski Lecture, 1981 James Arthur Lecture, American Museum of Natural History, 1987 Oxford Amnesty Lecture, 1998 Distinguished Lecture Series, Mind Brain Behavior Initiative, Harvard, 2004 John Damien Lecture, Stirling, 2007. David Yudilevich Lecture, Santiago 2009 Darwin Lecture, University of Preston, 2011 Pufendorf Lecture Series, University of Lund 2011 Recent invited talks
January 2006. The beauty of consciousness. Sconfinatamente. Rome April 2006. Cognitive life of things. Cambridge May 2006. Human handwalkers. Psychology Cambridge May 2006. Society of Selves. Royal Society, London June. 2006. Selfhood. Bologna November. 2006. Choice blindness, Lund November. 2006. Self. Bologna December. 2006. Seeing Red. Tilburg January. 2007. Human handwalkers. Birkbeck, London March 2007. First person methodologies, San Francisco May 2007. Society of Selves, Science Festival, Trieste. September 2007. Necessity of Consciousness. BPS, CEP, Oxford September 2007. Sapient mind. British Academy, London September 2007. Necessity of Consciousness. John Damien Lecture, Stirling October 2007. Future of life. Kyoto October 2007 Society of Selves. PRI. Inuyama. December 2007. Beauty’s Child. Tokyo January 2008. Necessity of Consciousness. ICC, Belfast January 2008. Necessity of Consciousness. PCC, LSE January 2008. Necessity of Consciousness. CU Scientific Society March 2008. Drawing on consciousness. Newcastle June 2008. Consciousness. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Kyoto, keynote June 2008. Human Behavior and International Security. MIT September 2008. Autism and talent. Royal Society. London October 2008. Writing and Consciousness. Wellcome, London October 2008 Necessity of Consciousness. International Science Festival, Genoa March 2009 Autism and talent, British Academy, London March 2009. Belief and Reasons. Cambridge June 2009. Science and Spirituality. Cortona September 2009. Evolutionary aesthetics. Santiago. October 2010. Consciousness, Genoa science festival November 2010. Consciousness, Placebo effect (two lectures) Univ. Ghent January 2011. Soul Dust, Univ. Exeter psychology February 2011. Soul Dust, LSE anthropology February 2011. Darwin lecture, Univ Preston, February 2011 Soul Dust, New School for Social Research March 2011. Consciousness, Rubin Museum, New York March 2011. Soul Dust, Univ. Cambridge, Psychology March 2011 Methodist Conference, Cambridge April 2011. Creativity lecture Keble College, Oxford, April 2011. Univ Bristol, philosophy weekend, keynote May 2011 Univ. Lund, philosophy, Pufendorf lectures (four lectures) May 2011. Soul Dust, Hay Book Festival June 2011. Soul Dust, Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, keynote June 2011. Consciousness, Univ. Bucharest August 2011. Soul Dust, Edinburgh Book Festival September 2011. Humanist Society, London October 2011. Soul Dust, Yale, October 2011. Public Lecture, Princeton Library October 2011. Soul Dust, U. Penn, Philadelphia, October 2011. Nature’s Hidden Persuaders, Guggenheim Museum, New York Television Programmes (written and presented)
Four Minutes to Midnight, The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture.
(A one-hour programme about the psychology of nuclear weapons). BBC2, 1981.
Shakespeare's Sonnets, nos. 56 and 87. (Two 20-minute
programmes about the meaning of Shakespeare's poems). Channel 4. 1982.
The Inner Eye (six one-hour programmes about the uses
and origins of human consciousness). Channel 4. 1986.
Is There Anybody There? (a one-and-a-half-hour "special documentary" about
the psychology of the paranormal). Channel Four. 1987. US Discovery Channel, 1988.
Placebo: Cracking the Code (a scientific exploration
of the placebo effect). Discovery Channel 2004.
The Family that Walks on All Fours, (an investigation of a family of human quadrupeds
in Turkey) BBC 2, 2006, NOVA 2006. PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind, Oxford University Press, 1983 [Spanish translation 1989]. Four minutes to midnight The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture, BBC Publications,
1981; Menard Press 1982. [German, Greek, Russian translations, 1982].
In a Dark Time, (ed. with R. J. Lifton), Faber & Faber
1984, Harvard University Press 1984.
The Inner Eye, Faber & Faber 1986, Faber Inc 1987, Vintage 1993, Oxford University Press
2002. [Italian and Spanish translations 1992, Japanese 1993, Slovak 2007].
A History of the Mind, Chatto & Windus
1992, Simon & Schuster 1992, Vintage 1993, Copernicus 1999. [Portuguese translation 1995; German 1996; Italian 1998].
Leaps
of Faith: Science, Miracles and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, Chatto & Windus 1995, Vintage 1996, Basic Books 1996,
Copernicus 1999.
How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem, Imprint Academic, 2000.
The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers
of Evolution and Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2002. [Japanese translation 2004]
Seeing Red: a Study in Consciousness.
Harvard University Press, 2006 [Japanese translation 2006, Italian 2007, German 2008]
Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness.
Princeton University Press, 2011, Quercus 2011 [Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Czech translations forthcoming]
Papers
since 1998 (100+ papers 1967-98, including nine first-authored papers in Nature)
1998
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Left-footedness in peacocks: an emperor’s tale.’ Laterality, 3, (1998) p. 289. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘What shall we tell the children?’ Oxford Amnesty Lecture.
Social Research, 65, (1998), pp. 777-805; also in The Values of Science, ed. Wes Williams,, Oxford: Westview Press (1998), pp
58-79.
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Cave art, autism and the evolution of the human mind.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 8, (1998)
pp. 165-191; reprinted in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, (1999) pp. 116-143.
1999
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Why grandmothers may need large brains.’ Psycoloquy, 10(024) (1999). Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The privatization of sensation.’ In Toward a Science
of Consciousness III, ed. S. R. Hameroff, A.W. Kaszniak, and D. J. Chalmers, Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press (1999) pp. 247-258;
also in The Evolution of Cognition, ed. L. Huber and C. Heyes,, Cambridge: MIT Press (2000) pp. 241-252.
2000
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The power of prayer.’ Skeptical Inquirer, 24, (2000), p. 61. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘How to solve the mind-body problem.’ Journal
of Consciousness Studies, 7, (2000), pp.5-20,
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘In reply.’ Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7,
(2000), pp. 98-112.
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Now you see it, now you don’t.’ Neuro-psychoanalysis, 2, (2000) pp. 14-17. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘One-self: a meditation on the unity of consciousness.’ Social Research, 67, (2000), pp. 32-39. Nicholas
Humphrey. ‘Dreaming as play.’ Behavioral & Brain Sciences , 23, (2000), p. 953.
2001
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Altered states.’ Social Research, 68, (2001), pp 585-7. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The Deformed Transformed’. CPNSS Monograph, DP 55/01, (2001).
Nicholas
Humphrey. ‘Doing it my way: sensation, perception - and feeling red.’ Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, (2001), p. 987.
2002
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Great expectations: the evolutionary psychology of faith-healing and the placebo response.’ In Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Vol. 2: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. Edited by Claes von Hofsten & Lars Bäckman. Psychology Press, (2002), pp.225-46. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman].’ Cambridge
Archaeological Journal, 12, (2002), pp. 91-3.
2003
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Dreaming as play’. In Sleep and dreaming: Scientific advances and reconsiderations,. Edited by E F Pace-Schott, M.Solms, M.Blagrove, and S.Harnad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2003) p. 164 Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Foreword’ to Folk Physics for Apes by Daniel J. Povinelli, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2003, pp. v-vi.
2004
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Thinking about feeling.’ Guest essay in Oxford Companion to the Mind. Edited by R.L.Gregory , Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004), pp. 213-4 . Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The placebo effect’. In Oxford Companion
to the Mind. Edited by R.L.Gregory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004), pp. 735-6.
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘A family affair.’
In Curious Minds: How a child becomes a scientist. Edited by. John Brockman, New York: Pantheon Books, (2004), pp.3-12.
2005
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Do babies know what they look like? Doppelgängers and the phenomenology of infancy.’ In Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Vol. 2. Edited by Susan Hurley and Nick Chater, Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press, (2005), pp. 178-80 Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Prirodni psychologovia’ [Natural psychologists], Kritika & Kontext, 31 (2005), pp. 23-29.
Nicholas
Humphrey, John R Skoyles and Roger Keynes. ‘Human Hand-Walkers: Five Siblings Who Never Stood Up.’ CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 77/05
(2005)
2006
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Consciousness: the Achilles Heel of Darwinism? Thank God, Not Quite.’ In Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement, ed. John Brockman,New York: Vintage (2006) pp. 50-64 Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Science looks at fairness.’ Social Research, 73 (2006) pp. 345-7. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Killer instinct’ (Review of Niall Furguson,
“World of War”). Prospect. September (2006).
2007
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Could vision after recovery from early blindness be “blindsight”?’ The Psychologist, 20, 3, (2007) p.139 Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The society of selves.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,
362, (2007) pp. 745-754; also in Social intelligence: from brain to culture, ed. Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, Chris Smith, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, (2008), pp. 415-430
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘La natura e il valore del colore.’ Multiverso, n.4, (2007) pp.
3-8
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Dreaming to learn.’ In Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with great scientists of our time., ed.
Lynn Margulis & Eduardo Punset, Chelsea Green Publishing, (2007).pp. 140-148
2008
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Getting the measure of consciousness.’ In What is Life? The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream. Ed. M. Murase and I. Tsuda, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 173, (2008) pp. 264-269. Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Questioning consciousness.’ Seed Magazine, February (2008.)
Nicholas
Humphrey, Stefan Mundlos, and Seval Turkmen. ‘Genes and quadrupedal locomotion in humans.’ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(21):E26,
May 2008.
S. Türkmen, K. Hoffmann, Osman Demirhan, Defne Aruoba, N. Humphrey, S.Mundlos. ‘Cerebellar hypoplasia, with quadrupedal
locomotion, caused by mutations in the very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) gene.’ European Journal of Human Genetics 16,
(2008), pp. 1070-74.
2009
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The colour currency of nature.’ In Colour for Architecture Today. Ed. Tom Porter and Byron Mikellides. London: Taylor and Francis, (2009) pp. 912. Helen “a blind monkey who saw everything”. Oxford Companion
to Consciousness , ed. Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken, (2009) pp. 343-345.
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Il potere delle parole’
(Italian translation of “What shall we tell the children?”. Prometeo, June 2009, pp38-51.
Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel
C. Dennett. ‘Parler au nom de nos Soi(s): Une évaluation du trouble de personalité multiple.’ Terrain, 52,(2009) pp. 18-37
Seval
Turkmen, Nicholas Humphrey et al. ‘Mutations of CA8 Cause a Novel Syndrome Characterized by Ataxia and Mild Mental Retardation with
Predisposition to Quadrupedal Gait.’ PLOS Genetics 5(5): e1000487. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000487 (2009).
2010
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The nature of beauty.’ Prospect, September,(2010) pp. 62-65, Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Person as moral scientist.’ Behavioral
& Brain Sciences. 33.4, , (2010) p. 340
2011
Nicholas Humphrey.‘It takes a thief to catch a thief’. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 34.1. (2011) p. 28, Emanuele Castano, Nicholas Humphrey, et al. ‘Ideology, fear of death and death anxiety.’ Political
Psychology, 32, (2011) pp. 601-621
Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Introduction’ to Descartes’ Discourse and Meditations,’ Folio Society,
(2011)
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